Design point for predicting year-round performance of solar parabolic trough concentrator systems

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Wirz, Men ^a   Roesle, Matthew ^a   Steinfeld, Aldo ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE EFFICIENCIES; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; DIRECT NORMAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; OPTIMIZATION STUDIES; PARABOLIC TROUGH CONCENTRATORS;

COOLING SYSTEMS; FORECASTING;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84889650685     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4025709     Document Type: Article

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