Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Three-Dimensional Optical and Thermal Numerical Model of Solar Tubular Receivers in Parabolic Trough Concentrators J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2012;134(4):041012-041012-9. doi:10.1115/1.4007494 Figure Legend: Temperatures and modes of heat transfer of a cross section of the receiver

Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Three-Dimensional Optical and Thermal Numerical Model of Solar Tubular Receivers in Parabolic Trough Concentrators J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2012;134(4):041012-041012-9. doi:10.1115/1.4007494 Figure Legend: Control volumes of the 2D discretization mesh in polar coordinates

Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Three-Dimensional Optical and Thermal Numerical Model of Solar Tubular Receivers in Parabolic Trough Concentrators J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2012;134(4):041012-041012-9. doi:10.1115/1.4007494 Figure Legend: Visualization of a typical ray tracing setup

Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Three-Dimensional Optical and Thermal Numerical Model of Solar Tubular Receivers in Parabolic Trough Concentrators J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2012;134(4):041012-041012-9. doi:10.1115/1.4007494 Figure Legend: Visualization of the MC ray tracing for an absorber tube segment (a) and an inner glass surface segment (b)

Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Three-Dimensional Optical and Thermal Numerical Model of Solar Tubular Receivers in Parabolic Trough Concentrators J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2012;134(4):041012-041012-9. doi:10.1115/1.4007494 Figure Legend: Power absorbed at the absorber tube and in the glass envelope divided by the solar radiation incident on the concentrator aperture

Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Three-Dimensional Optical and Thermal Numerical Model of Solar Tubular Receivers in Parabolic Trough Concentrators J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2012;134(4):041012-041012-9. doi:10.1115/1.4007494 Figure Legend: Circumferential distribution of the incident solar radiation absorbed at the absorber tube and in the glass envelope for Isun = 933.7 W/m2

Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Three-Dimensional Optical and Thermal Numerical Model of Solar Tubular Receivers in Parabolic Trough Concentrators J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2012;134(4):041012-041012-9. doi:10.1115/1.4007494 Figure Legend: Temperature distribution around the circumference of the outer absorber and glass surfaces

Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Three-Dimensional Optical and Thermal Numerical Model of Solar Tubular Receivers in Parabolic Trough Concentrators J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2012;134(4):041012-041012-9. doi:10.1115/1.4007494 Figure Legend: On-sun field test: collector efficiency

Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Three-Dimensional Optical and Thermal Numerical Model of Solar Tubular Receivers in Parabolic Trough Concentrators J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2012;134(4):041012-041012-9. doi:10.1115/1.4007494 Figure Legend: Off-sun field test: heat loss of the absorber

Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Three-Dimensional Optical and Thermal Numerical Model of Solar Tubular Receivers in Parabolic Trough Concentrators J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2012;134(4):041012-041012-9. doi:10.1115/1.4007494 Figure Legend: Off-sun lab test: heat loss of the absorber tube

Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Three-Dimensional Optical and Thermal Numerical Model of Solar Tubular Receivers in Parabolic Trough Concentrators J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2012;134(4):041012-041012-9. doi:10.1115/1.4007494 Figure Legend: Off-sun lab test: average glass temperature