Assessment and Evaluation of the Thermal Performance of Various Working Fluids in Parabolic Trough Collectors of Solar Thermal Power Plants under Non-Uniform Heat Flux Distribution Conditions

Assessment and Evaluation of the Thermal Performance of Various Working Fluids in Parabolic Trough Collectors of Solar Thermal Power Plants under Non-Uniform Heat Flux Distribution Conditions

Changing the heat transfer fluid (HTF) is a viable approach to study the corresponding effect on the thermal and hydraulic performances of parabolic trough collectors (PTC). Three categorized-types of pure fluids are used in this study; water, Therminol<sup>®</sup> VP-1 and molten salt....

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Main Authors: Nabeel Abed, Imran Afgan, Andrea Cioncolini, Hector Iacovides, Adel Nasser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-07-01
Series:Energies
Subjects:
heat transfer fluids
non-uniform heating
Nusselt number
parabolic solar trough collectors
Rankine cycle
solar thermal power plant
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/15/3776

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