A new method for the measurement of solar collector time constant

Renewable Energy

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 855-865

  Hou, H J ^a,b   Wang, Z F ^c   Wang, R Z ^a,b   Wang, P M ^c  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MOE China   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

First order system; Solar collector; Time constant

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INTAKE SYSTEMS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURE; FIRST ORDER SYSTEMS;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

COLLECTOR; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 10944274134     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2004.08.005     Document Type: Article

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