Research Article

Technoeconomic Evaluation of Electricity Generation from Concentrated Solar Power Technologies in Ghana

Table 3

Technical specifications for the absorber tube [46, 47].

Property (unit)Value

Tube length (m)4.060
Outer diameter (m)0.070
Inner diameter (m)0.066
Glass envelope outer diameter0.125
Absorptance, 0.960
Thermal emittance, 0.095
Transmittance, 0.965
Absorber tube weight (kg/m)3.390
Active aperture area (%)96.700
Operating pressure (bar)≤41