Exergetic efficiencies and the exergy content of terrestrial solar radiation

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 673-676

  Wright, Sean E ^a   Rosen, Marc A ^b  

^a The University of Colorado Denver   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXERGY; HYDROGEN; PHOTONS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

BLACKBODY RADIATION (BR); EXERGY ANALYSIS; SOLAR CELL DESIGN; TERRESTRIAL SOLAR RADIATION;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 8744287409     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1636796     Document Type: Article

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