Nonimaging secondary concentrators for large rim angle parabolic troughs with tubular absorbers

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2242-2245

  Ries, Harald ^a   Spirkl, Wolfgang ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nonimaging optics; Secondary concentrators; Solar trough collectors; Tailored reflectors

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL DEVICES; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EDGE RAY PRINCIPLES; NONIMAGING OPTICS; PARABOLIC TROUGHS; SECONDARY CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR TROUGH COLLECTORS; TAILORED REFLECTORS;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

EID: 0030151804     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002242     Document Type: Article

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