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Wind loads greatly affect the mechanical performance and tracking accuracy of heliostats. Therefore, the wind load must be accurately known to assure the operational reliability of heliostats. A simple wind load model was developed based on experiments on an actual heliostat rather than a wind...
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Laboratory and field experiments were carried out along with numerical simulations in this paper to study the effects of porous media on thermal and salt diffusion of the solar ponds. From our laboratory experiments simulating heat transfer inside a solar pond, it is shown that the addition of...
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In this paper, polystyrene(PS)/n-dotriacontane(Dot) composite nanoencapsulated phase change material (NEPCM) for thermal energy storage was synthesized by a facile and time-saving ultrasonically initiated miniemulsion polymerization method. The influences of ultrasonic factors including...
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