Hybrid dish/stirling systems: Combustor and heat pipe receiver development

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 176-181

  Laing, Doerte ^a   Pålsson, Magnus ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTORS; SODIUM; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; STIRLING ENGINES;

COMBUSTION SYSTEM; COMBUSTION-ONLY MODE; HYBRID SODIUM HEAT PIPE RECEIVERS;

HEAT PIPES;

EID: 13644255873     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1465433     Document Type: Article

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