Design and on-sun testing of a solid particle receiver prototype

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 329-334

  Siegel, Nathan ^a   Kolb, Greg ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC PARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONCENTRATED SOLAR ENERGY; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; DIRECT ABSORPTION; INTERNAL CAVITIES; SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES; SOLAR POWER SYSTEMS; SOLID PARTICLES; TALL CAVITY; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEST DATA;

HYDROGEN; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 70350020601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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