Comparison of oil and aluminum-based heat storage charged with a small-scale solar parabolic trough

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 146-154

  Mussard, Maxime ^a   Nydal, Ole Jørgen ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aluminum based storage; Heat storage; Oil based storage; Thermosyphon

Indexed keywords

HEAT SOURCES; PARABOLIC TROUGH; SELF-CIRCULATION; STORAGE POTENTIAL; STORAGE UNITS;

ALUMINUM; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; SALTS; THERMOSYPHONS;

OILS AND FATS;

EID: 84877775800     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2013.03.059     Document Type: Article

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