Incorporating uncertainty into probabilistic performance models of concentrating solar power plants

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 0310121-0310128

  Ho, Clifford K ^a   Kolb, Gregory J ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER PLANT; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; LATIN HYPERCUBE SAMPLING; PERFORMANCE MODEL; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROBABILISTIC PERFORMANCE; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SIMPLE COST MODEL; STEPWISE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; UNCERTAIN VARIABLES;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77955213035     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001468     Document Type: Article

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