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2. Parabolic trough - Wikipedia

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   A parabolic trough is made of a number of solar collector modules (SCM) fixed together to move as one solar collector assembly (SCA). A SCM could have a length up to 15 metres (49 ft 3 in) or more. About a dozen or more of SCM make each SCA up to 200 metres (656 ft 2 in) length. Each SCA is an independently-tracking parabolic trough. [9]

3. Solar-powered Stirling engine - Wikipedia

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   NASA patented a type of solar-powered Stirling engine on August 3, 1976. It used solar energy to pump water from a river, lake, or stream. [1] The purpose of this apparatus is to “provide a low-cost, low-technology pump having particular utility in irrigation systems employed in underdeveloped arid regions of the earth…[using] the basic principles of the Stirling heat engine“.

4. Solar furnace - Wikipedia

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   The solar furnace at Odeillo in the Pyrénées-Orientales in France can reach temperatures of 3,500 °C (6,330 °F). A solar furnace is a structure that uses concentrated solar power to produce high temperatures, usually for industry. Parabolic mirrors or heliostats concentrate light onto a focal point.

5. Solar thermal collector - Wikipedia

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   The term "solar collector" commonly refers to a device for solar hot water heating, but may refer to large power generating installations such as solar parabolic troughs and solar towers or non-water heating devices such as solar cookers or solar air heaters. [1] Solar thermal collectors are either non-concentrating or concentrating.

6. Solar thermal energy - Wikipedia

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   Parabolic trough power plants use a curved, mirrored trough which reflects the direct solar radiation onto a glass tube containing a fluid (also called a receiver, absorber or collector) running the length of the trough, positioned at the focal point of the reflectors. The trough is parabolic along one axis and linear in the orthogonal axis.

7. List of solar thermal power stations - Wikipedia

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   Parabolic trough Completed November 2010 [22] Lebrija-1 Spain: Lebrija: 50 Parabolic trough Completed July 2011 [22] [90] Astexol 2 Spain: Badajoz: 50 Parabolic trough 7.5: Completed November 2011, with 7.5h thermal energy storage [22] [87] Morón Spain: Morón de la Frontera

8. Solar desalination - Wikipedia

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   In Kuwait a MSF facility uses parabolic trough collectors to provide solar thermal energy to produce 100 m 3 of fresh water a day. [8] And in Northern China an experimental, automatic, unmanned operation uses 80 m 2 of vacuum tube solar collectors coupled with a 1 kW wind turbine (to drive several small pumps) to produce 0.8 m 3 /day. [29]

9. Solar water heating - Wikipedia

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   An advertisement for a Solar Water Heater dating to 1902 Frank Shuman's sunengine on the March 1916 cover of Hugo Gernsback's The Electrical Experimenter. Records of solar collectors in the United States date to before 1900, [5] involving a black-painted tank mounted on a roof. In 1896 Clarence Kemp of Baltimore enclosed a tank in a wooden box ...