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Jason Tarlecki, Noam Lior, Na Zhang, “Evaluation of some thermal power cycles for use in space”, Proc. ECOS 2006, 19th Conference on Efficiency, Costs, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Aspects of Energy Systems, Crete, Greece, 2006.
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