Exergy and economic analyses of replacing feedwater heaters in a Rankine cycle with parabolic trough collectors

Fossil fuels are exhaustible and their consumption causes environmental problems. As a result, renewable energy resources, specifically solar energy, should be utilized more to overcome the aforementioned issues. The biggest problem with renewable energy utilization is that their capital cost is ver...

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Main Authors: Amin Mohammadi, Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi, Mokhtar Bidi, Mahyar Ghazvini, Tingzhen Ming
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-11-01
Series:Energy Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484717303311