Parabolic Trough Collector Prototypes for Low-Temperature Process Heat [Paperback]

This book provides a technical overview of low-costparabolic trough collector (PTCs) prototypes for low-temperature heat demand.It begins with a comprehensive but concise summary of the state-of-the-art inPTCs, and presents a detailed mathematical model of such systems. Subsequentchapters describe the construction and materials used in the manufacture of PTCprototypes, and offers technical solutions to overcome design problems.Finally, it provides an accessible guide to the standards used to test andevaluate the performance of PTCs. Offering a valuable resource to engineeringresearchers and practitioners, it is also suitable for students of solarthermal systems, renewable energy and applied physics.

Introduction.- Mathematical Modeling.- Standards and Testing.-Concentrator.- Receiver.

 

Gianluca Coccia is a Ph.D.student of Industrial Engineering at the Department of Industrial Engineeringand Mathematical Sciences of Marche Polytechnic University, Italy. During hisBachelor and Master theses, he studied parabolic trough solar collectorsworking with two experimental prototypes and developing a mathematical modelable to determine the optical and the thermal efficiency of such systems. Hisdoctoral activity includes properties of fluids (thermal conductivity, dynamicviscosity, surface tension, virial coefficients), nanofluids and solar energysystems (parabolic trough collectors and solar cookers). He also studiesmathematical models and artificial neural networks applied to theaforementioned topics. He is author of papers published in international journalsin the field of solar energy and thermophysical properties of fluids.

Giovanni Di Nicola is associateprofessor in Environmental Applied Physics at the Faculty of Engineering of theMarche Polytechnic University, Italy. During the last 20 years, he conductedresearch, both experimental and theoretical, on thermophysical properties wilC”