Thermal behaviour of solar air heater with compound parabolic concentrator

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 529-540

  Tchinda, Réné ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air heating; CPC collector; CPC length; Flat one sided absorber; Mass flow rate; Optical efficiency

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

AIR HEATING; FLAT ONE-SIDED ABSORBERS; MASS FLOW RATE; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY;

SOLAR HEATING;

EID: 39749154799     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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