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ISRN Mechanical Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 915154, 10 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/915154
Research Article
Exergy Assessment of Single Stage Solar Adsorption Refrigeration System Using ANN
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala 673601, India
Received 18 May 2012; Accepted 13 June 2012
Academic Editors: G. A. Britton and Y. He
Copyright © 2012 V. Baiju and C. Muraleedharan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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