Performance investigation of parabolic trough solar receiver

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 95, Issue , 2016, Pages 357-364

  Guo, Jiangfeng ^a   Huai, Xiulan ^a   Liu, Zhigang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS   (China)

^b QILU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Exergy efficiency; Exergy loss; Heat loss; Heat transfer; Solar receiver; Thermal efficiency

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; EXERGY; FLUIDS; GLASS; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; EVALUATION CRITERIA; EXERGY EFFICIENCIES; EXERGY LOSS; PARABOLIC TROUGH RECEIVERS; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; SOLAR RECEIVER; THERMAL EFFICIENCY;

HEAT LOSSES;

EID: 84950349570     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2015.11.035     Document Type: Article

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