The potential of a hybrid power plant for the Dubrovnik - Neretva County (Southern Croatia)

Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 174-182

  Zhang, Huili ^a   Baeyens, Jan ^b   Degreve, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Concentrated solar power; Croatia; Design; Hourly direct irradiation; Plant simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982099477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18489257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13044/j.sdewes.2015.03.0014     Document Type: Article

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