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Benoit Boulay

Raphaël Couturier

Gatien Fleury

Arnaud Bruch

Olivier Sicardy

Carole Mollard

Valéry Vuillerme

Jean-Marc Duhamel

A solar absorber body for a concentrating solar power system, said solar absorber body including: a tube, designed to contain a heat transfer medium and including a first part designed to be exposed to the sunlight and a second part designed to be unexposed to the sunlight, an assembly of fins made of thermally conductive material, and a selective coating arranged at least on the outer surface of the first part of the tube, said assembly of fins defining at least two longitudinal passages inside the tube, said passages being adjacent in a sectional plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tube, said assembly of fins being configured to create a continuous thermal bridge inside the tube from at least a portion of the inner surface of first part of the tube to at least a portion of the inner surface of the second part of the tube.

Solar absorber body for a concentrating solar power system and a method for manufacturing a solar absorber body

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Neuvy Sautour, France

Benoit Boulay