CPC solar collectors with flat bifacial absorbers

Solar energy

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 191-203

  Tripanagnostopoulos, Y ^a   Yianoulis, P ^a   Papaefthimiou, S ^a   Zafeiratos, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLAZES; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT LOSSES; MIRRORS; SOLAR ABSORBERS;

FLAT BIFACIAL ABSORBERS;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

EID: 0033632616     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(00)00061-X     Document Type: Article

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