Site selection for hillside central receiver solar thermal plants

Solar Energy

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 839-848

  Noone, Corey J ^a   Ghobeity, Amin ^a   Slocum, Alexander H ^a   Tzamtzis, George ^b   Mitsos, Alexander ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Beam down; Central receiver; Concentrated solar; Heliostat field; Power tower

Indexed keywords

BEAM-DOWN; CENTRAL RECEIVER; CONCENTRATED SOLAR; HELIOSTAT FIELD; POWER TOWER;

EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; SITE SELECTION; SOLAR HEATING; SUN; TOWERS;

INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION;

DATA SET; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INSOLATION; OPTIMIZATION; POWER PLANT; SAMPLING; SITE SELECTION; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMAL POWER;

EID: 79954585125     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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