Effect of directional dependency of wall reflectivity and incident concentrated solar flux on the efficiency of a cavity solar receiver

Solar Energy

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 153-164

  Larrouturou, Florent ^a   Caliot, Cyril ^a   Flamant, Gilles ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Directional selectivity and specular and diffuse reflectivity; Monte Carlo ray tracing; Reflection and thermal emission radiative losses; Solar cavity efficiency

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EFFICIENCY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFLECTION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DIFFUSE REFLECTIVITY; DIRECTIONAL SELECTIVITY; MONTE CARLO RAY TRACING METHOD; MONTE-CARLO RAY TRACING; RADIATIVE EFFICIENCY; THERMAL EMISSIONS;

RAY TRACING;

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; ENERGY FLUX; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; REFLECTIVITY; SOLAR POWER; WALL;

EID: 84908126033     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2014.08.028     Document Type: Article

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