Evaluation of air recirculation for falling particle receivers

ASME 2013 7th Int. Conf. on Energy Sustainability Collocated with the ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. and the ASME 2013 11th Int. Conf. on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, ES 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ho, Clifford K ^a   Christian, Joshua M ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Sandia Staffing Alliance   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR RE-CIRCULATION; AIR VELOCITY DISTRIBUTIONS; AVERAGE DIAMETER; CAVITY RECEIVER; DIFFERENT SIZES; PARTICLE FLOW PATTERNS; SOLAR RECEIVER; UNSTABLE FLOWS;

AIR; FUEL CELLS; HEAT TRANSFER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

FLOW PATTERNS;

EID: 84892997947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2013-18236     Document Type: Conference Paper

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