Practical field alignment of parabolic trough solar concentrators

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-159

  Diver, Richard B ^a   Moss, Timothy A ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Overlay; Parabolic trough; Photographic; Reflection; Solar concentrator

Indexed keywords

HEAT COLLECTION ELEMENT (HCE); OVERLAYS; PARABOLIC DISH SYSTEMS; PARABOLIC TROUGH SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

HEAT STORAGE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MIRRORS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REFLECTION;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 34249297929     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2710496     Document Type: Article

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