AN OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR THE QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF PARTICULATE CONTAMINATION ON SOLAR COLLECTOR SURFACES

Solar Energy

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 371-378

  Biryukov, S ^a   Faiman, D ^a   Goldfeld, A ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DUST; MICROSCOPES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SOLAR COLLECTORS; SURFACES;

COMPUTERIZED MICROSCOPE SYSTEM; FRACTION OF SURFACE AREA; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PARTICULATE CONTAMINATION; SOLAR COLLECTOR SURFACES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033177616     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(99)00020-1     Document Type: Article

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