Glossary
- Aperture:
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Opening of a solar cavity receiver.
- Carnot efficiency:
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Maximum efficiency for converting heat from a high-temperature thermal reservoir at TH into work in a cyclic process, and rejecting heat to a low-temperature thermal reservoir at TL, given by 1 − TL/TH.
- CB (carbon black):
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Important industrial raw material used as pigment and reinforcement in rubber and plastic products.
- CPC (compound parabolic concentrator):
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Nonimaging concentrating device that is usually positioned in tandem with the primary parabolic concentrating system to further augment the solar concentration ratio.
- CSP (concentrating solar power):
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CSP plants generate electricity by converting solar energy into high-temperature heat using various mirror configurations.
- Direct normal solar irradiance:
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Power flux of direct solar irradiation on a surface perpendicular to the sun’s rays
- Endothermic:
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Absorbs heat.
- Exergy efficiency (for a solar thermochemical process):
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The efficiency for converting solar energy...
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Meier, A., Steinfeld, A. (2022). Solar Energy in Thermochemical Processing. In: Alexopoulos, S., Kalogirou, S.A. (eds) Solar Thermal Energy. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1422-8_689
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