Journal
ENERGY
Volume 116, Issue -, Pages 1039-1050Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.10.021
Keywords
Solar energy; Solar process heat; Parabolic trough collectors; Enhanced receiver; Experimental tests; Direct steam generation
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- Nardini Consulting
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The present work aims at investigating an innovative flat aluminum absorber for process heat and direct steam generation in small linear solar concentrating collectors. After defining its optimal width through a Monte Carlo ray-tracing analysis, this absorber has been manufactured with the bar-and-plate technology, including an internal offset strip turbulator in the channel. This technology is cost-effective and extremely flexible, allowing to easily adapt the geometry of the absorber to different reflecting optics configurations. It has been mounted on an asymmetrical parabolic trough concentrator to form a solar collector with a concentration ratio of 42, which has been experimentally investigated. In particular, a new test procedure is presented, applied and validated to characterize the thermal performance of the collector during steam generation. The results show that a promising overall thermal efficiency of 64% at 0.160 K m(2) W-1 can be achieved with negligible pressure drop. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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