An estimation of the performance limits and improvement of dry cooling on trough solar thermal plants

Applied Energy

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 216-223

  Deng, Huifang ^a   Boehm, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dry cooling; Efficiency; Flattened tube surface; Solar thermal power

Indexed keywords

COOLING; EFFICIENCY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR HEATING; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

AMBIENT WET-BULB TEMPERATURES; CONDENSER TEMPERATURE; DRY BULB TEMPERATURE; DRY COOLING; FLATTENED TUBES; SOLAR THERMAL PLANTS; SOLAR THERMAL POWER; SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

COOLING; ESTIMATION METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POWER GENERATION; POWER PLANT; SOLAR POWER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

LAS VEGAS; NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957311781     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.05.027     Document Type: Article

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