Optical and thermal evaluations of a medium temperature parabolic trough solar collector used in a cooling installation

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 1134-1146

  Balghouthi, Moncef ^a   Ali, Abdessalem Bel Hadj ^a   Trabelsi, Seif Eddine ^a   Guizani, Amenallah ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER OF ENERGY   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Deformation; Intercept factor; Optical performance; Parabolic trough solar collector; Photogrammetry; Slope errors; Thermal efficiency

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; DEFORMATION; ERRORS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY; SUN;

INTERCEPT FACTORS; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; PARABOLIC TROUGH SOLAR COLLECTORS; SLOPE ERRORS; THERMAL EFFICIENCY;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

EID: 84904761889     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2014.06.095     Document Type: Article

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