The use of corrugated booster reflectors for solar collector fields

Solar Energy

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 343-351

  Rönnelid, Mats ^a   Karlsson, Björn ^b  

^a DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b RINGHALS AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LIGHT REFLECTION; RAY TRACING; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

CORRUGATED BOOSTER REFLECTORS;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

EID: 0032661285     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(99)00009-2     Document Type: Article

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