A direct-steam linear fresnel performance model for NREL's system advisor model

ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES 2012, Collocated with the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology

Volumn , Issue PARTS A AND B, 2012, Pages 459-468

  Wagner, Michael J ^a   Zhu, Guangdong ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUEL CELLS; STEAM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; MODEL PERFORMANCE; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PERFORMANCE MODEL; QUASI-STEADY STATE; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS;

HEAT LOSSES;

EID: 84900439578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2012-91317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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