Design, construction and testing of a parabolic trough solar collector for a developing-country application

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 849-854

  Brooks, Michael ^a   Mills, Ian ^a   Harms, Thomas ^b  

^a MANGOSUTHU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE TESTING; DURING CONSTRUCTION; GLASS COVERS; LOW TEMPERATURES; PARABOLIC TROUGH; PEAK EFFICIENCY; RESEARCH PROGRAMMES; RIM ANGLE; ROTARY ENCODER; SOLAR THERMAL; TRACKING SYSTEM;

ERROR ANALYSIS; GLASS;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

EID: 84870534849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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