Design of a 16-cell densely-packed receiver for high concentrating photovoltaic applications

Energy Procedia

Volumn 54, Issue , 2014, Pages 185-198

  Micheli, Leonardo ^a   Sarmah, Nabin ^a   Luo, Xichun ^b   Reddy, K S ^c   Mallick, Tapas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

CPV; High concentration; IMS; Receiver; Solar energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906962542     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.07.262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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