Experimental and numerical measurement of the thermal performance for parabolic trough solar concentrators
Applied Physics
2019-08-02 v1
Abstract
Parabolic trough mirror plants are a popular design for the conversion of solar energy to electricity via thermal processes. The receiver unit (RU) for absorbing the concentrated solar radiation is limited to maximum temperature (580 degree Celsius) and is responsible for efficiency losses mainly via thermal radiation. We built a RU in the laboratory to study the thermal performance for different designs and we companied this study with a mathematical module implemented on a simulation code. In this work, the simulation and the first set of experiments show a good agreement, validating the applicability of the code.
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@article{arxiv.1908.00515,
title = {Experimental and numerical measurement of the thermal performance for parabolic trough solar concentrators},
author = {Khaled Mohamad and Philippe Ferrer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00515},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Late upload. Submitted to conference in 2018. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1907.13066