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Schematic of (a) conventional receiver and (b) NCPSC

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Attenuation of solar irradiance as it passes through the nanofluid and subsequent convective (qconv) and radiative (qrad) losses

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Schematic of NCPSC

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Effect of temperature on the thermal diffusivity of Therminol VP-1 (data points taken from Ref. [20])

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Spectral extinction coefficient of the Therminol VP-1(data points taken from Ref. [9,35]) and the nanofluid. The symbols used in the plots are as follows: () Therminol VP-1 and () nanofluid (Therminol VP-1 + 0.05% Al nanoparticles).

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Discretization of the participating medium with finite difference nodes in radial coordinates

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Comparison of (a) optical loss, (b) thermal loss, and (c) total loss as a function of average fluid temperature above ambient for BCPSC, NCPSC, and the conventional linear parabolic solar collectors (data points for the conventional linear parabolic solar collector have been taken from Ref. [16]). The symbols used in the plots are as follows: () nanofluid-based volumetric receiver with vacuum in the annulus; () basefluid-based volumetric receiver with vacuum in the annulus and () Dudley et al. [16] (Cermet receiver with vacuum in the annulus).

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Comparison of thermal efficiency as a function of average fluid temperature above ambient for BCPSC, NCPSC, and the conventional linear parabolic solar collectors (data points for the conventional linear parabolic solar collector have been taken from Ref. [16]). The symbols used in the plots are as follows: () nanofluid-based volumetric receiver with vacuum in the annulus; () basefluid-based volumetric receiver with vacuum in the annulus and () Dudley et al. [16] (Cermet receiver with vacuum in the annulus).

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Comparison of thermal efficiencies as a function of incident angle for NCPSC and the conventional linear parabolic solar collectors (data points for the conventional linear parabolic solar collector have been taken from Ref. [16]). The symbols used in the plots are as follows: () nanofluid-based receiver with vacuum in the annulus and () Dudley et al. [16] (black chrome selective coating with vacuum in the annulus).

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Effect of convective heat transfer coefficient on (a) thermal efficiency and (b) thermal losses in the case of NCPSC

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Effect of solar incident angle on (a) thermal efficiency and (b) thermal losses for the NCPSC

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Effect of solar irradiance on (a) thermal efficiency and (b) thermal losses in the case of NCPSC

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Thermal efficiency as a function of thermal diffusivity of Therminol VP-1