Fixed, but reversible, concentrator with vacuum tube receiver is fabricated from individual asymmetrical vee-shaped members having two sides, each of which presents different preselected slope angle to Sun. Trough concentrator maintains year-round concentration factor of 2 (or better) for most significant collection period of day.
Improved solar-energy collector
NASA Tech Briefs ; 1 , 4
1977-03-01
Miscellaneous
No indication
English
Flatplate Solar Energy Collector
NTRS | 1976
Tower-supported solar-energy collector
NTRS | 1977
|Status Of Solar Energy Collector Technology
AIAA | 1963
|Two-axis movable concentrating solar energy collector
NTRS | 1977
|NTRS | 1984
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