Research Article
Workbench for a Parabolic Trough Solar Collector with a Tracking System
Table 4
Comparison of thermal efficiency among different collectors.
| | Author | Efficiency (%) | Optical efficiency (%) | | |
| | Torres et al. [23] | 52,38 (max) | NA | NA | NA | | Coccia et al. [18] | 65,00 (max) | 66,80 | 6,42 | 0,985 | | Jaramillo et al. [24], PTC45 | 38,00 (max) | 48,00 | 43,09 | 0,90 | | Jaramillo et al. [24], PTC90 | 67,00% (max) | 70,00 | 34,98 | 0,90 | | Proposed collector | 34,38% (max) | 41,00 | 21,7 | 0,84 |
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