Exergy analysis of flat plate solar collectors

Entropy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2549-2567

  Ge, Zhong ^a   Wang, Huitao ^a   Wang, Hua ^a   Zhang, Songyuan ^a   Guan, Xin ^b  

^a KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Exergy; Exergy loss; Flat plate collector; Heat loss coefficient

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901405034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e16052549     Document Type: Article

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