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SkyFuel's parabolic trough concentrating solar collector was installed in a trial of WaterFX's new Aqua4™ solar thermal desalination technology. The single collector, which is 6 meters wide and ...

Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC): A solar concentrator that utilises a parabolic-shaped reflector to focus sunlight onto a receiver tube, thereby converting solar radiation into thermal energy.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A mirror alignment measurement device, invented by Rich Diver, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, may soon make one of the most popular solar collector systems ...

Small-scale collectors available on a residential scale include parabolic solar collectors that are shaped like a large satellite dish but contain mirrors, not antennae.

In July 2008, the CEC granted "a certificate to construct and operate" the Victorville 2 Hybrid Power Plant that included 50 megawatts worth of parabolic solar-thermal collectors over 250 acres ...

The Solar Sunflower is the latest innovation in solar panels and it’s so pretty that you’ll forget it actually has a serious function. But that’s not the best part—it’s super efficient too. The panel ...

Today, almost all solar thermal power plants use the Eurotrough parabolic trough collector, ... In addition, the world’s first operation of the ‘HelioTrough® 2.0’ parabolic trough collectors from ...

The proposed system combines a solar thermal plant based on parabolic trough collectors (PTCs) connected to water storage and a photovoltaic facility coupled to a sand-based high-temperature heat ...