Electricity generation from a compound parabolic concentrator coupled to a thermoelectric module

2008 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 423-432

  Mgbemene, Chigbo A ^a   Duffy, John ^b   Sun, Hongwei ^b   Onyegegbu, Samuel O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATOR; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; INITIAL COSTS; MODEL EQUATIONS; TEM; THERMOELECTRIC MODULES;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CORROSION PREVENTION; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 70349895233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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