Thermal performance of parabolic trough solar collectors

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 67, Issue , 2017, Pages 1345-1359

  Salgado Conrado, L ^a   Rodriguez Pulido, A ^b   Calderon G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE COAHUILA   (Mexico)

^b Centro de Investigación en Sustentabilidad Energética Y Ambiental del Noreste   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Experimental set up; Parabolic Trough Collectors; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOLAR ENERGY;

COST ANALYSIS; COST/ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL SET UP; MODELING SIMULATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTAL; PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTORS; PARABOLIC TROUGH SOLAR COLLECTORS; SET-UPS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

THERMOANALYSIS;

EID: 84988962299     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.09.071     Document Type: Review

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