Design and evaluation of an on-sun prototype falling-particle cavity receiver

ASME 2014 8th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES 2014 Collocated with the ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Christian, Joshua ^a   Ho, Clifford ^a   Kolb, William ^a   Kelton, John ^a   Ray, Daniel ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ENGINEERING; FLOW RATE; MASS TRANSFER; OPACITY; SOLAR ENERGY; SUN;

COMPUTATIONAL EVALUATION; CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; PARTICLE COLLECTION; PARTICLE TEMPERATURE; PARTICLE TEMPERATURE RISE; PROJECT EXPERIENCES; TESTING AND EVALUATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 84912078434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2014-6446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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