Recent progress in heat-pipe solar receivers

Proceedings of the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 565-572

  Moreno, James B ^a   Modesto Beato, Marcos A ^a   Andraka, Charles E ^a   Showalter, Steven K ^a   Rawlinson, Scott ^a   Moss, Timothy A ^a   Mehos, Mark ^b   Baturkin, Vladimir ^c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Heat pipe; Receiver; Solar; Stirling

Indexed keywords

POROSIMETRY; WICK STRUCTURES;

CORROSIVE EFFECTS; HEAT TRANSFER; KINEMATICS; LIQUID METALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; METHANOL; POROSITY; SINTERING; SODIUM; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; STIRLING CYCLE; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; VAPORS; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

HEAT PIPES;

EID: 0038045930     PISSN: 0146955X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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