Citation
Abstract
To assist in making engineering or management decisions, this article explores the possibility of building a single selection criterion to distinguish between different solar collector subsystems for a specific application or between different complete solarpowered systems. The development of two analogous criteria are discussed. The criteria combines both performance and unit area costs, and presents the dollar per unit power and the dollar per unit energy produced from a solar plant. Typical values for current focusing and nonfocusing solar collectors were included to support the discussion. The first phase development shows that the criteria evaluation is in need of more data about the annual dynamic behavior of the collector subsystem only, under the transient site-specific parameters such as solar flux, wind, and ambient temperature.
Details
- Volume
- 42-44
- Published
- April 15, 1978
- Pages
- 224–235
- File Size
- 1.1 MB