Peer-review under responsibility of Riga Technical University, Institute of Energy Systems and Environment.

1876-6102 © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2016.09.007

Energy Procedia 95 ( 2016 ) 29 – 36

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