@inproceedings{2e91e8b8adb54b49b18d3835f53452b8,
title = "Optical and thermal performance of bladed receivers",
abstract = "Bladed receivers use conventional receiver tube-banks rearranged into bladed/finned structures, and offer better light trapping, reduced radiative and convective losses, and reduced tube mass, based on the presented optical and thermal analysis. Optimising for optical performance, deep blades emerge. Considering thermal losses leads to shallower blades. Horizontal blades perform better, in both windy and no-wind conditions, than vertical blades, at the scales considered so far. Air curtains offer options to further reduce convective losses; high flux on blade-tips is still a concern.",
author = "John Pye and Joe Coventry and Clifford Ho and Julius Yellowhair and Ian Nock and Ye Wang and Ehsan Abbasi and Joshua Christian and Jesus Ortega and Graham Hughes",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Author(s).; 22nd International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2016 ; Conference date: 11-10-2016 Through 14-10-2016",
year = "2017",
month = jun,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1063/1.4984383",
language = "English",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
booktitle = "SolarPACES 2016",
address = "United States",
}