Techno-economic performance analysis of parabolic trough collector in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 622-633

  Mokheimer, Esmail M A ^a   Dabwan, Yousef N ^a   Habib, Mohamed A ^a   Said, Syed A M ^a   Al Sulaiman, Fahad A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Optical efficiency of PTC; Parabolic trough collector; Solar energy; Thermal efficiency of PTC; Thermo economic analysis

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST ACCOUNTING; COSTS; EFFICIENCY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR ENERGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION CODES; ENGINEERING EQUATIONS; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTORS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMAL EFFICIENCY; THERMO-ECONOMIC;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84903851496     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2014.06.023     Document Type: Article

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