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Use of solar Parabolic Trough Collectors for hot water production in Cyprus. A feasibility study
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In this article, a feasibility study for the use of solar Parabolic Trough Collectors for hot water production in Cyprus was carried out for two types of applications, domestic and hotel.About:
This article is published in Renewable Energy.The article was published on 1992-04-01. It has received 57 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Parabolic trough & Solar energy.read more
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Solar thermal collectors and applications
TL;DR: A survey of the various types of solar thermal collectors and applications is presented in this paper, where an analysis of the environmental problems related to the use of conventional sources of energy is presented and the benefits offered by renewable energy systems are outlined.
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Global advancement of solar thermal energy technologies for industrial process heat and its future prospects: A review
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the recent literature concerning research works carried out to solar thermal collectors and its industrial applications, global advancements in solar thermal technologies, collectors and the solar thermal energy storage system with a focus on the sun tracking system, thermal performance, and modeling techniques is presented.
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Environmental benefits of domestic solar energy systems
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the environmental protection offered by the two most widely used renewable energy systems, i.e., solar water heating and solar space heating, and showed that by using solar energy, considerable amounts of greenhouse polluting gasses are avoided.
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Design, manufacture and testing of fiberglass reinforced parabola trough for parabolic trough solar collectors
A. Valan Arasu,T. Sornakumar +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the design and manufacture of a smooth 90° rim angle fiberglass reinforced parabolic trough for paraboloid solar collector hot water generation system by hand lay up method is described.
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Numerical thermal study on effect of porous rings on performance of solar parabolic trough collector
TL;DR: In this paper, three dimensional turbulent flow for Syltherm heat transfer fluid in absorber tube of solar system with turbulators is simulated using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
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The effect of dust accumulation on line-focus parabolic trough solar collector performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors improved the predictive capability of existing models by incorporating a factor that accounts for dust and dirt accumulation on the optical surfaces, which has been accomplished by modifying the optical efficiency with a dust factor to account for the reduced reflectivity of the mirror and reduced transmissivity of cover glass.