Solar Photocatalytic Pilot Plants: Commercially Available Reactors

Photocatalysis and Water Purification: From Fundamentals to Recent Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 377-397

  Malato, Sixto ^a   Fernández Ibáñez, Pilar ^a   Ignacio Maldonado, Maneil ^a   Oller, Isabel ^a   Inmaculada Polo López, Maria ^a  

^a PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compound parabolic concentrators; Nonconcentrating solar reactors; One sun reactor; Parabolic trough concentrator; Photoreactor; Solar photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885567602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527645404.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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