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From: Conceptual Design of a 2× Trough for Use Within Salt and Oil-Based Parabolic Trough Power Plants
J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2010;132(4): doi: /
Figure Legend:
Solar flux tracker for parabolic trough collectors

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From: Conceptual Design of a 2× Trough for Use Within Salt and Oil-Based Parabolic Trough Power Plants
J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2010;132(4): doi: /
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The TOP alignment system can potentially reduce facet alignment errors to 0.5 mrad

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From: Conceptual Design of a 2× Trough for Use Within Salt and Oil-Based Parabolic Trough Power Plants
J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2010;132(4): doi: /
Figure Legend:
Sandia 10 kWe dish/string system dish system. The structural honeycomb facets have slope errors in the range of 8–1.4 mrad.

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From: Conceptual Design of a 2× Trough for Use Within Salt and Oil-Based Parabolic Trough Power Plants
J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2010;132(4): doi: /
Figure Legend:
Trough-HELIOS prediction of incident flux upon a 0.07 m diameter HCE for a current 5 m aperture trough and a future 10 m trough. System errors are 5.4 mrad for the 5 m trough and 2.5 mrad for the 10 m trough. Trough-HELIOS requires surface pointing-type errors. Beam error=2∗ pointing error. The King sunshape and 1000 W/m2 insolation were assumed.

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From: Conceptual Design of a 2× Trough for Use Within Salt and Oil-Based Parabolic Trough Power Plants
J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2010;132(4): doi: /
Figure Legend:
EC comparison of current and future trough technology