Study on the radiation flux and temperature distributions of the concentrator-receiver system in a solar dish/Stirling power facility

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1780-1789

  Li, Zhigang ^a   Tang, Dawei ^a   Du, Jinglong ^a,b   Li, Tie ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Heater head; Radiation flux; Solar dish concentrator; Solar receiver; Solar Stirling engine; Temperature distribution

Indexed keywords

HEATER HEAD; RADIATION FLUX; SOLAR DISH CONCENTRATOR; SOLAR RECEIVER; STIRLING;

ARC LAMPS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GLASS INDUSTRY; HEAT CONVECTION; LIGHTING; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; STIRLING ENGINES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOANALYSIS;

RADIATION;

EID: 79954427249     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.02.023     Document Type: Article

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