Radiative properties of ionic liquid-based nanofluids for medium-to-high-temperature direct absorption solar collectors

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 130, Issue , 2014, Pages 521-528

  Zhang, Long ^a   Liu, Jian ^a   He, Guodong ^a   Ye, Zhuocheng ^a   Fang, Xiaoming ^a   Zhang, Zhengguo ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Direct absorption solar collector; Ionic liquid; Nanofluid; Radiative properties; Solar thermal utilization

Indexed keywords

HEAT RADIATION; IONIC LIQUIDS; NANOPARTICLES; NICKEL; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLAR COLLECTORS; VOLUME FRACTION; CARBON; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SOLAR ABSORBERS;

CU NANO-PARTICLES; DIRECT ABSORPTION; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; NANOFLUIDS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION PROPERTIES; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; SOLAR THERMAL; THEORETICAL METHODS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84907218651     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.07.040     Document Type: Article

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