Calibration of high-heat-flux sensors in a solar furnace

Metrologia

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 495-500

  Ballestrin J ^a   Rodriguez Alonso M ^a   Rodriguez J ^a   Caadas I ^a   Barbero, F J ^b   Langley, L W ^c   Barnes, A ^c  

^a PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^c Vatell Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; HEAT FLUX; SOLAR RADIATION; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

BLACK BODY; GARDON GAUGES; SOLAR FURNACE; SOLAR IRRADIANCE;

SENSORS;

EID: 33846882159     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/43/6/003     Document Type: Article

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