Enhanced efficiency in a coupled photovoltaic/thermal concentrating solar collector

ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 529-536

  Chowdhury, Ihtesham ^a   Otanicar, Todd ^b   Prasher, Ravi ^a   Sherbeck, Jonathan ^a   Phelan, Patrick ^a   Burrell, Marc ^b  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRO-THERMAL SIMULATION; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; ITERATIVE NUMERICAL SCHEME; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC/THERMAL; POWER CYCLE; SOLAR CONCENTRATION; THERMAL DESIGNS; THERMAL SYSTEMS;

ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY GAP; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR COLLECTORS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 80054684694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2010-90137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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