Curti et al. [7] investigate configurations for district heating heat pumps which draw low temperature heat from Swiss lakes, supported by cogeneration.
Figure 1 shows the investigated configuration.
Uniform Circular Array (UCA) is a most nonlinear investigated configuration [11, 12].
In investigated configuration, the conducting material is part of the plasma source.
The study reveals that the investigated configuration has the potential to reduce capital investment and operating costs.
They show that the investigated configuration features a non-ideal reactor based on the flow and tracer transport.
However, since it does not involve any rotating part, the investigated configuration allows a far more accurate and complete experimental characterization.
It is also shown that deterministic cost analysis yields inaccurate results for all of the investigated configurations.
Figure 4 shows the BER versus η curves of the investigated configurations for two different transmission rates, where the rates in (a) are half the ones in (b).
Finally reliability profiles for all investigated configurations are compared mutually and with standard requirements on the basis of mean time to failure statistics.
