Thermoeconomic optimization of a renewable polygeneration system serving a small isolated community

Energies

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 995-1024

  Calise, Francesco ^a   Dentice d'Accadia, Massimo ^a   Piacentino, Antonio ^b   Vicidomini, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exergoeconomics; Exergy analysis; Multiple effect distillation (MED); Photovoltaic thermal collectors (PVT); Solar desalination; Solar heating and cooling

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DISTILLATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; WATER FILTRATION;

EXERGOECONOMICS; EXERGY ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE EFFECT DISTILLATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC/THERMAL; SOLAR DESALINATION; SOLAR HEATING AND COOLING;

EXERGY;

EID: 84924437542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en8020995     Document Type: Article

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