Experimental investigation of the bending of absorber tube of solar parabolic trough concentrator and comparison with analytical results

Solar Energy

Volumn 125, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-11

  Khanna, Sourav ^a   Sharma, Vashi ^b   Kedare, Shireesh B ^a   Singh, Suneet ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b MALAVIYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Absorber tube; Bending; Parabolic trough

Indexed keywords

BENDING (FORMING); CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); SOLAR ABSORBERS;

ABSORBER TUBES; ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; ANALYTICAL EQUATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; PARABOLIC TROUGH; PARABOLIC TROUGH CONCENTRATORS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BENDING; DEFLECTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SOLAR RADIATION; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; TROUGH;

EID: 84949804468     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2015.11.046     Document Type: Article

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