Energy and economic evaluation of fixed focus type solar parabolic concentrator for community cooking applications

Energy Education Science and Technology Part A: Energy Science and Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-59

  Rajamohan, P ^a   Jeba Rajasekhar, R V ^b   Shanmugan, S ^a   Ramanathan, K ^a  

^a THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Community cooking; Economic analysis; Fixed focus type; Solar parabolic concentrator

Indexed keywords

BACK ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; END USERS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; FIXED FOCUS; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PARABOLIC CONCENTRATORS; PAYBACK PERIODS; RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGY; RESEARCH PAPERS; SOLAR COOKING; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; ZERO EMISSION;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INVESTMENTS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84861961280     PISSN: 1308772X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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