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Operating Experience with Solar Ponds in Tropics

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Physics and Technology of Solar Energy

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Solar ponds have been tried with a degree of seriousness since early seventies, in temperate latitudes. and mediterranean climates mainly USA, Israel and Australia. In tropical climates, mainly India, concerted attempts at building, understanding and operating solar ponds have only started in Eighties. Solar ponds, being double diffusive chemical systems in open, present special problems in tropics, which are of significant concern to their engineering performacne, resource reliability and economic viability.

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  1. Solar Energy Unit, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 605002, India

    C. L. Gupta

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  1. Centre of Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

    H. P. Garg

  2. Department of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Ministry of Energy, New Delhi, India

    M. Dayal

  3. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

    G. Furlan

  4. Department of Engineering, The University of Reading, Reading, USA

    A. A. M. Sayigh

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Gupta, C.L. (1987). Operating Experience with Solar Ponds in Tropics. In: Garg, H.P., Dayal, M., Furlan, G., Sayigh, A.A.M. (eds) Physics and Technology of Solar Energy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3939-4_8

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