An Optimization Study of a Low Thermal Potential Power System.

Abstract

A power generating system using the low thermal potential available from the vertical temperature distribution of the ocean is analyzed as a combined engineering and economic mathematical model. The model is optimized for minimum capital cost employing a sequential unconstrained minimization algorithm. Examples of the kinds of engineering and cost information available from the model are presented. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA031709

Entities

People

  • J. R. Buckingham
  • M. D. Kelleher
  • W. M. Raike

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Engineering
  • Costs
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Feed Pumps
  • Flow Rate
  • Fluid Flow
  • Heat Flux
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • Mass Flow
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Surface Waters
  • Thermodynamics

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.