Comparative and sensitive analysis for parabolic trough solar collectors with a detailed Monte Carlo ray-tracing optical model

By Ze-Dong Cheng, Ya-Ling He, F. Cui, Bao-Cun Du, Zhangjing Zheng, Yang Xu. 2014

183 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3d63ad9c5fba371eb479ca7bd05c336e07be7e9e

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Ya-Ling He
2. Y. Qiu
3. Ze-Dong Cheng

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Evangelos Bellos
2. Christos Tzivanidis
3. Y. Qiu
4. Ya-Ling He
5. Kun Wang
6. Ze-Dong Cheng
7. J. Meyer
8. A. Mwesigye

Citations in the corpus

• Study on optical and thermal performance of a linear Fresnel solar reflector using molten salt as HTF with MCRT and FVM methods (2015, background): “The average solar flux on the absorber surface (qave) is defined as [40]:”
• Thermal and optical efficiency investigation of a parabolic trough collector (2015, methodology): “…while extended optical analysis of concentrating collector is studied by many researchers, with Cheng et al. to use the Monte Carlo ray-tracing optical model in order to simulate a PTC [20] and Binotti et al. [10] to use FirstOPTIC method to calculate the optical analysis of the examined models.”