Optimal design of stationary nonevacuated cpc solar concentrator with fully illuminated wedge receivers

Proceedings of the Solar World Congress 2005: Bringing Water to the World, Including Proceedings of 34th ASES Annual Conference and Proceedings of 30th National Passive Solar Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 921-926

  Tíba, Chigueru ^a   Fraidenraich, Naum ^a   Brand o, Bráulio B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Low Concentration CPC; Optimal Design; Solar Thermal Collector

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE ANGLE; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; AVERAGE NUMBERS; CONCENTRATION REGION; FLUID TEMPERATURES; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; LOWER AVERAGE; OPTIMAL DESIGN; REFLECTOR SURFACES; SOLAR THERMAL COLLECTOR; TEMPERATURE RANGE; UPPER LIMITS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

OPTIMAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870481571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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