Abstract: This report deals with the effects of certain systematic errors on performance and, therefore, their influence on the design of troughs. Systematic rotation error is the angle between the ...

Abstract: Correlations of direct solar insolation and windspeed data based upon a 12.5-year period are presented for 26 SOLMET stations distributed over the contiguous United States. These correlations ...

Abstract: The potential performance of single-axis tracking parabolic trough solar collectors as a function of optical energy distribution and receiver size has been calculated for 11 sites using typical ...