Automatic noncontact quality inspection system for industrial parabolic trough assembly

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 0110081-0110085

  Pottler, Klaus ^a   Röger, Marc ^a   Lüpfert, Eckhard ^b   Schiel, Wolfgang ^c  

^a PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c Schlaich Bergermen und Partner   (Germany)

Author keywords

Parabolic trough; Photogrammetry; Quality control; Solar field; Surveying

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

NONCONTACT (NC); PARABOLIC TROUGH; QUALITY INSPECTION; SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS;

POWER PLANTS;

EID: 47049108068     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2804628     Document Type: Conference Paper

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