Multi-criteria decision making on the energy supply configuration of autonomous desalination units

Renewable Energy

Volumn 75, Issue , 2015, Pages 459-467

  Georgiou, Dimitris ^a   Mohammed, Essam Sh ^a   Rozakis, Stelios ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Desalination; Multi criteria analysis; Renewable energy sources; Reverse osmosis; Topologies

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DESALINATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NATURAL RESOURCES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; TOPOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GENERATION; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; HYBRID CONFIGURATIONS; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATION;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; DECISION MAKING; DESALINATION; DIESEL; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; OSMOSIS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84949126104     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.09.036     Document Type: Article

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