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What is a skyfuel trough collector?

The US-American company SkyFuel developed a line of parabolic trough collectors targeting a significant cost reduction trough standardized lightweight structures and the utilization of reflective polymer films (see Fig. 29). SkyFuel developed an adhesive reflector, called ReflecTech, to substitute the commonly used glass mirror panels.

How do parabolic trough collectors convert solar energy into useful heat?

Parabolic trough collectors convert only a fraction of the incident solar energy into useful heat due to present optical and thermal losses. The absorbed thermal energy Q eff at the receiveŕs end results out of the amount of concentrated absorbed power Q con, a b s under consideration of present heat losses Q loss (Schenk & Eck, 2012).

What are optical performance parabolic trough collectors?

Optical performance Parabolic trough collectors convert only a fraction of the incident solar energy into useful heat due to present optical and thermal losses.

What is Ms trough solar collector?

MS-Trough: The collector is specifically designed to operate with the denser molten salt medium in comparison to thermal oil, which is the reason for its 800–1000 m continuous solar collector assembly length. The pressure drop in a collector loop of these dimensions represents an unrealistic deployment at approximately 20 bar.

Which parabolic trough collectors surpass the baseline?

Regarding the aperture width, other two collectors surpass as well this baseline, namely the MS-Trough and GlassPoint. Fig. 56 summarizes the dimensions of the innovations referred to in the study. Fig. 56. Dimensions comparison of innovative parabolic trough collector modules and timeline of innovations.

What is a parabolic trough?

Parabolic troughs concentrate the incident direct normal irradiance on its focal line. Fig. 8 shows a symmetric parabolic collector and a receiver at focal distance. The analytical representation of the parabola is described in Eq.