A jet impingement/channel receiver for cooling densely packed photovoltaic cells under a paraboloidal dish solar concentrator

Heat Transfer Research

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 767-778

  Ji, Jie ^a   Wang, Yunfeng ^a   Chow, Tin Tai ^b   Chen, Haifei ^a   Pei, Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Hybrid cooling scheme; Numerical simulation; Paraboloidal dish concentrator; Solar concentration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COOLANT FLOW RATES; HYBRID COOLING; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; PARABOLOIDAL DISH CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR CONCENTRATION; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; WORKING PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROCHANNELS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

COOLING;

EID: 84876535567     PISSN: 10642285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/HeatTransRes.2012005884     Document Type: Article

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