An urgent need to enable the operation of parabolic trough concentrators at higher
temperatures for higher efficiency of the coupled power cycles is manifested in the state-of …

Parabolic trough solar collectors (PTC) have been widely applied in concentrating solar
power generation and solar heating. During typical operation processes, due to the …

This article presents a detailed analysis of parameters that affect the optical performance of
parabolic trough solar collector (PTSC) and proposes a suitable method to optimize the …

This study investigates the optimization of physical parameters in a parabolic trough
collector receiver unit to improve its thermal and optical performance. The parameters …

We present a simple analytical formula for the geometric concentration ratio of a circular
trough optical concentrator coupled to a flat (planar) receiver. The receiver is sized to …

The performance of the newly designed parabolic trough solar thermal collector system has
been investigated experimentally in the current work. The receiver tube is placed below the …

The paper explores the performance of an evacuated U-tube solar collector integrated with a
parabolic reflector under extreme hot tropical conditions, both with and without the presence …

In this paper, a segmented specular reflection solar concentrator is proposed. Many mirrors
are arranged in the same plane, and all the reflected rays fall on the cylindrical focal surface …