Experimental study on the heat transfer characteristics of a low melting point salt in a parabolic trough solar collector system

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 89, Issue , 2015, Pages 748-754

  Wu, Yu Ting ^a   Liu, Shan Wei ^a   Xiong, Ya Xuan ^b   Ma, Chong Fang ^a   Ding, Yu Long ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heat loss; Heat transfer coefficient; Low melting point molten salt; Trough solar collector system

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; FUSED SALTS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT LOSSES; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MELTING POINT; SOLAR COLLECTORS;

CIRCULATION OF MOLTEN SALT; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; MOLTEN SALT; PARABOLIC TROUGH SOLAR COLLECTORS; TROUGH SOLAR COLLECTORS; WORKING TEMPERATURES;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 84936949318     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2015.06.054     Document Type: Article

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