Solar cooling systems utilizing concentrating solar collectors - An overview
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...Army Yuma Proving Ground with a 1191 m powered by parabolic through collectors (PTC) [5]....
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...Another study in 2000 was done by the Polytechnic University of Madrid on a prototype PTC collector using thermal oil as a heat transfer fluid coupled to a single effect ammonia/water absorption chiller [10]....
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...In 1956, two small solar cooling systems with concentrating collectors were reported in Montlouis in France and in Flordia in US consisting of parabolic trough collectors coupled to prototype single stage water-ammonia absorption chillers [3]....
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...The University of Jordan tested a prototype absorption chiller for air-conditioning by coupling the chiller to a prototype flat plate collector with a PTC collector in 1991 [8]; later, in 2000, a prototype PTC with an absorption chiller for refrigeration purpose in desert areas was tested [9]....
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