Durability of solar reflector materials for secondary concentrators used in CSP systems

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 130, Issue , 2014, Pages 51-63

  Fernández García, Aránzazu ^a   Cantos Soto, M Elena ^a   Röger, Marc ^a   Wieckert, Christian ^b   Hutter, Christian ^b   Martínez Arcos, Lucía ^a  

^a PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central towers; CSP systems; Durability; Fresnel collectors; Secondary concentrators; Solar reflector materials

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM BRIDGES; DURABILITY; GLASS; GLUING; LINE CONCENTRATORS; MATERIALS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; STRESSES;

DEGRADATION PATTERNS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FRESNEL; REAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; REFLECTOR MATERIALS; SECONDARY CONCENTRATORS; STRUCTURAL DEGRADATION;

REFLECTION; DURABILITY;

EID: 84904555741     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.06.043     Document Type: Article

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