Airborne shape measurement of parabolic trough collector fields

Solar Energy

Volumn 91, Issue , 2013, Pages 68-78

  Prahl, Christoph ^a   Stanicki, Badrudin ^b   Hilgert, Christoph ^a   Ulmer, Steffen ^a   Röger, Marc ^a  

^a PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES RAVENSBURG WEINGARTEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deflectometry; Distant observer; Mirror slope deviation; Optical performance; Parabolic trough

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877909649     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2013.01.012     Document Type: Article

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