Exergy analysis and environmental impact assessment of solar-driven heat pump drying systems

Causes, Impacts and Solutions to Global Warming

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 839-858

  Ozcan, Hasan ^a   Dincer, Ibrahim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drying systems; Efficiency; Environmental assessment; Exergy analysis; Heat pump; Renewable energy; Solar; Two stage evaporation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DRYING; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; EXERGY; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; PUMPS; SOLAR HEATING; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DRYING SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EXERGY ANALYSIS; HEAT PUMPS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SOLAR;

HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS;

EID: 84942993851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781841505442     Document Type: Chapter

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