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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 ...

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 ...