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Title: Coupled optical-thermal-fluid modeling of a directly heated tubular solar receiver for supercritical co2 brayton cycle.

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Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
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USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
1245774
Report Number(s):
SAND2015-2276C
579452
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Proposed for presentation at the ASME ES2015.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Jesus Ortega, Sagar Khivsara, Christian, Joshua Mark, Yellowhair, Julius, and Ho, Clifford K. Coupled optical-thermal-fluid modeling of a directly heated tubular solar receiver for supercritical co2 brayton cycle.. United States: N. p., 2015. Web.
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Jesus Ortega, Sagar Khivsara, Christian, Joshua Mark, Yellowhair, Julius, & Ho, Clifford K. Coupled optical-thermal-fluid modeling of a directly heated tubular solar receiver for supercritical co2 brayton cycle.. United States.
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Jesus Ortega, Sagar Khivsara, Christian, Joshua Mark, Yellowhair, Julius, and Ho, Clifford K. Sun . "Coupled optical-thermal-fluid modeling of a directly heated tubular solar receiver for supercritical co2 brayton cycle.". United States. doi:. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1245774.
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title = {Coupled optical-thermal-fluid modeling of a directly heated tubular solar receiver for supercritical co2 brayton cycle.},
author = {Jesus Ortega and Sagar Khivsara and Christian, Joshua Mark and Yellowhair, Julius and Ho, Clifford K.},
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year = {Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2015}
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