Thermal analysis of solar parabolic trough with porous disc receiver

By K. R. Kumar, K. Reddy. 2009

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Citations in the corpus

Heat transfer and thermodynamic performance of a parabolic trough receiver with centrally placed perforated plate inserts (2014, methodology): “Ravi Kumar and Reddy [3] investigated the performance of the receiver with a porous disc at different angles of orientation, different heights and different distances between the consecutive discs.”
Thermodynamic optimisation of the performance of a parabolic trough receiver using synthetic oil–Al2O3 nanofluid (2015, background): “Several investigations into heat transfer enhancement in parabolic trough receivers have been carried out and their potential for improving the receiver’s heat transfer performance was demonstrated [13-17].”
Optimal thermal and thermodynamic performance of a solar parabolic trough receiver with different nanofluids and at different concentration ratios (2017, background): “Ravi Kumar and Reddy [11] performed a thermal analysis on a parabolic trough receiver with a porous disc oriented at different angles.”
Heat transfer and entropy generation in a parabolic trough receiver with wall-detached twisted tape inserts (2016, background): “Several researchers have applied some of the passive heat transfer enhancement techniques to improve the performance of parabolic trough receivers [10,14-16].”
An Integrated Thermal and Mechanical Investigation of Molten-Salt Thermocline Energy Storage (2011, background): “Introduction 1 Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) power plants [1-6] have been identified as a 2 promising renewable option for the economical generation of electricity at a large scale.”
Thermal performance and entropy generation analysis of a high concentration ratio parabolic trough solar collector with Cu-Therminol®VP-1 nanofluid (2016, methodology): “Selected studies on heat transfer enhancement techniques in parabolic trough receivers include: The use of inserts inside the receiver’s absorber tube was investigated by Mwesigye et al. [16,17], the use of porous discs was studied by Ravi Kumar and Reddy [13].”