Nontracking solar concentrators

Solar Energy

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 113-120

  Spirkl, Wolfgang ^a   Ries, Harald ^b   Muschaweck, Julius ^a   Winston, Roland ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; SOLAR RADIATION;

NONTRACKING SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 0032007246     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(97)00106-0     Document Type: Article

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