Small scale power generation using low grade heat from solar pond

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 50-56

  Singh, Baljit ^a,b   Gomes, J ^a   Tan, Lippong ^a   Date, Abhijit ^a   Akbarzadeh, A ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Power generation; Renewable energy; Solar Pond; Thermoelectric generator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891590125     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2012.10.111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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