Non-axisymmetric reflectors concentrating radiation from an asymmetric heliostat field onto a circular absorber

Solar Energy

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-30

  Spirkl, Wolfgang ^a   Timinger, Andreas ^a   Ries, Harald ^b   Kribus, Abraham ^c   Muschaweck, Julius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIOSTATS (INSTRUMENTS); MIRRORS; OPTIMIZATION; RAY TRACING; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR RADIATION;

COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATORS (CPC); SOLAR TOWER PLANTS;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 0032123393     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(98)00037-1     Document Type: Article

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