Numerical and experimental study of an integrated solar collector with CPC reflectors

Renewable Energy

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 577-586

  Kessentini, Hamdi ^a   Bouden, Chiheb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

CPC; Experiments; ICS; Modeling; Simulation; Solar water heaters

Indexed keywords

COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATOR; CPC; ICS; INTEGRATED COLLECTOR STORAGE; INTEGRATED SOLAR COLLECTORS; NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SIMULATION; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

EXPERIMENTS; MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELS; REFLECTION; SOLAR WATER HEATERS; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION; STORAGE TANK; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84875602635     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.02.015     Document Type: Article

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