The promise and challenge of solar volumetric absorbers

Solar Energy

Volumn 110, Issue , 2014, Pages 463-481

  Kribus, Abraham ^a   Gray, Yonatan ^a   Grijnevich, Michael ^a   Mittelman, Gur ^a   Mey Cloutier, Sébastien ^b   Caliot, Cyril ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Porous medium; Solar receiver; Volumetric effect

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC FOAMS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

GEOMETRIC AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES; LOCAL THERMAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM; MONTE- CARLO SIMULATIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION OF GEOMETRIES; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLAR RECEIVER; VOLUMETRIC EFFECT;

SOLAR ABSORBERS;

ABSORPTION; DESIGN; GEOMETRY; LOW TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLAR POWER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VOLUME;

EID: 84911153582     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2014.09.035     Document Type: Article

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