Historical development of concentrating solar power technologies to generate clean electricity efficiently – A review

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 996-1027

  Baharoon, Dhyia Aidroos ^a   Rahman, Hasimah Abdul ^a   Omar, Wan Zaidi Wan ^a   Fadhl, Saeed Obaid ^b  

^a FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADEN   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Central receiver technology (TSP); Concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies; Linear Fresnel collector (LFC); Parabolic trough collector (PTC); Stirling dish technology (SDC); Tower power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983486741     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.09.008     Document Type: Review

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