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In Denmark, a technological change towards cleaner energy technologies has been developed and implemented since around 1975. This development has had two phases: The first from 1975 until around 1996, when wind power was a niche production that supplied only 3.5% of the electricity consumption...
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The present study is concerned with the exergoeconomic performance analysis of a storage-type electrical water heater, being subjected to two volumes of hot water removals at 5 L/min; the first one immediately after the heating of water in the tank, and the second, after some time has been...
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and thermal efficiencies for these cycles was performed. The findings demonstrated that the highest thermal efficiency was … achieved using the recompression Brayton cycle, at June noontime. The maximum integrated system thermal efficiency using this … cycle was 40% while the maximum thermal efficiency of this cycle alone was 52%. The regenerative Brayton cycle, although …
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To improve their efficiency is of vital importance for the widespread application of TEG (thermoelectric generators). A … optimum efficiency and geometrical dimensions of the STEG (segmented thermoelectric generator) module operating between 300 K … peak efficiency is about 11.2% when the load resistance is close to the internal resistance, which matches well with the …
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This paper presents energy and exergy assessments of a new integrated system with different psychrometric processes for HVAC&R applications. The mass, energy, entropy and exergy balance equations for all system components and processes are developed for analysis and performance assessment...
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directly coupled to organic Rankine cycle turbine. The energy efficiency of the system is found to be 56.5% and the exergy … efficiency 20.3%. The largest exergy destructions are found to occur in both combustion chamber and boiler. The variations in …
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motors efficiency as one of the greatest energy consumption apparatuses in the world. Induction motors constitute, by far … powerful candidate with growing market are investigated in some details. The motor opportunities like high efficiency, high …
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the second law efficiency of the device by 50% points, corresponding to a 3.8% point increase in thermal efficiency. …
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This work compares two classes of exergy efficiency definitions and applies them on a simple process (i.e. PRICO) for … efficiency definitions already proposed in the literature. In addition, the paper highlights the importance of decomposing the …
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Hydrogen demand as an energy currency is anticipated to rise significantly in the future, with the emergence of a hydrogen economy. Hydrogen production is a key component of a hydrogen economy. Several production processes are commercially available, while others are under development including...
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