Energy efficiency assessment of integrated and nonintegrated solar ponds

International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-51

  Bozkurt, Ismail ^a   Karakilcik, Mehmet ^a   Dincer, Ibrahim ^b  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Heat storage performance; Integrated solar pond; Solar collector

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894339618     PISSN: 17481317     EISSN: 17481325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ijlct/cts052     Document Type: Article

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