Experimental validation of a heat transfer model for concentrating photovoltaic system

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 33-34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 175-182

  Sendhil Kumar, Natarajan ^a   Matty, Katz ^b   Rita, Ebner ^c   Simon, Weingaertner ^d   Ortrun, Aßländer ^e   Alex, Cole ^f   Roland, Wertz ^f   Tim, Giesen ^f   Tapas Kumar, Mallick ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Solecta Ltd   (Israel)

^c AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d IMOS Gubela GmbH   (Germany)

^e ACI ecotec GmbH   (Germany)

^f NaREC ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concentrating PV; Heat transfer; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; COMPONENT TEMPERATURES; CONCENTRATING PHOTOVOLTAIC; CONCENTRATING PV; CONCENTRATION RATIO; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; SOLAR PANELS; TEMPERATURE PREDICTION; THERMAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL HEAT TRANSFER;

FORECASTING; HEAT TRANSFER; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 80055086229     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.09.031     Document Type: Article

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