Speaker
Mr
Khaled Mohamad
(Witwatersrand University)
Description
The solar parabolic trough collector is amongst the most mature solar technologies and becomes more cost-effective in recent years. We build on our previous work on hot mirrors to study an absorber with a mirrored cavity. The cavity absorber for the parabolic trough receiver is designed to reflect solar radiation back onto the absorber very efficiently, which would otherwise be lost. We built a RU in the laboratory to study the thermal performance for different designs and we companied this study with a mathematical module implemented on a simulation code. In this work, the simulation and the experiments show a good agreement, validating the applicability of the code and the proposed designs.
Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> award (Yes / No)?
Yes
Level for award<br> (Hons, MSc, <br> PhD, N/A)?
PhD
Primary author
Mr
Khaled Mohamad
(Witwatersrand University)
Co-author
Dr
Philippe Ferrer
(Wits University)
