Ultimate Trough® - A significant step towards cost-competitive CSP

Energy Procedia

Volumn 49, Issue , 2014, Pages 1831-1839

  Riffelmann, K ^a   Richert, T ^a   Nava, P ^a   Schweitzer, A ^b  

^a FLABEG GmbH   (Germany)

^b SBP Sonne GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Demonstration loop; Parabolic trough collector; Performance results; Ultimate Trough

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DEMONSTRATIONS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR ENERGY;

APERTURE AREA; CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER; COST COMPETITIVE; GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTERS; LEVELIZED COSTS; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTORS; PERFORMANCE RESULTS;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 84902265206     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.03.194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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