Optical and adhesive properties of dust deposits on solar mirrors and their effects on specular reflectivity and electrodynamic cleaning for mitigating energy-yield loss

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9175, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mazumder, Malay ^a   Yellowhair, Julius ^b   Stark, Jeremy ^a   Heiling, Calvin ^a   Hudelson, John ^a   Hao, Fang ^a   Gibson, Hannah ^a   Horenstein, Mark ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

CSP; dust deposition; self cleaning; soiling losses; specular reflectivity; thermal efficiency

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIELECTRIC FILMS; DUST; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTRODYNAMICS; MIRRORS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REFLECTION; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY;

CSP; DUST DEPOSITION; SELF CLEANING; SPECULAR REFLECTIVITY; THERMAL EFFICIENCY;

CLEANING;

EID: 84937884967     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2066328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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