Concentrating Solar Power

Chemical Reviews

Volumn 115, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 12797-12838

  Weinstein, Lee A ^a   Loomis, James ^a,b   Bhatia, Bikram ^a   Bierman, David M ^a   Wang, Evelyn N ^a   Chen, Gang ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT STORAGE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE;

COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGY; CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER; HIGH OPERATING TEMPERATURE; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; OPERATING TEMPERATURE RANGES; PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTORS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SOLAR THERMAL SYSTEMS;

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84949516777     PISSN: 00092665     EISSN: 15206890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00397     Document Type: Review

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