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158 3. GENERAL DESIGN OF A SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANT

FIGURE 3.24 (A) Kontas test platform in Spain. (B) Institute of Electrical Engineering,
Chinese Academy of Sciences test platform in Beijing, China.

collector concentration field, optical efficiency test platform of indoor and
outdoor parabolic trough vacuum evacuated tube, transient simulation
model for parabolic trough solar power plant and influences of transient
variation on energy output, as well as transient thermography method for
heat loss testing of parabolic trough evacuated tube.
Fig. 3.24B shows the test platform at IEE-CAS.
Except for the above-mentioned four prominent international
research institutions, many scholars in the world have also carried out
in-depth studies on parabolic trough collectors. For example, parabolic
trough collector efficiency testing by applying the quasi steady state test
method in the European standard EN 12975-2; application of American
standard ASHRAE 93-2003 and European standard EN 12975-2 in
parabolic trough collector performance testing and the respective