Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.This thesis reports on the technical and economic analysis of wet and dry cooling technologies of parabolic trough CSTP plant. This was done through modelling and simulation of a standalone and grid connected parabolic trough using the System Advisor Model (SAM)

Kariuki, Kibaara Samuel

Cape Town University OpenUCT

English

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