Design and realization of a novel sun tracking system with absorber displacement for parabolic trough collectors

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Gama, A ^a,b   Larbes, C ^b   Malek, A ^a   Yettou, F ^a   Adouane, B ^c  

^a CENTRE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES ENERGIES RENOUVELABLES   (Algeria)

^b ECOLE NATIONALE POLYTECHNIQUE   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATNA   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM; DESIGN CALCULATIONS; INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTORS; PARABOLIC TROUGH CONCENTRATORS; SUN TRACKING SYSTEMS; TWO-AXES SUN TRACKING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 84879937345     PISSN: 19417012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4807476     Document Type: Article

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