Abstract:In the last decade, large-scale deployment in the commercial use of tracking solar collectors has occurred due to new and large solar power plants using parabolic troughs or solar tower plants.This has piqued the interest of the research community and industry in new optical designs of solar collectors and in investigating the performance, limitations, and operational and maintenance issues of current solar collector designs, including specific research on receivers, optical concentrators, tracking systems, et… Show more
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