Thermal performance of a solar cooker based on an evacuated tube solar collector with a PCM storage unit

Solar Energy

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 416-426

  Sharma, S D ^a   Iwata, Takeshi ^b   Kitano, Hiroaki ^b   Sagara, Kazunobu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evacuated tube solar collector; Evening cooking; Latent heat storage; Phase change material; Solar energy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; HEAT STORAGE; SOLAR ENERGY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; THERMAL EFFECTS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ENERGY COLLECTION; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS (PCM); SOLAR COOKERS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

PHASE CHANGE; SOLAR POWER; STORAGE; THERMAL ANALYSIS; TUBE ARRAY;

EID: 13844251944     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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