Developments in the integrated CPC
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
The authors present a novel collector system using an evacuated nonimaging concentrator as a secondary for a circular primary mirror. The system was developed using a general design method that tailors the reflector shape to better match the input distribution of light reaching the secondary`s aperture. This technique, which uses a complimentary edge ray to simplify the geometrical formalism, recovers familiar designs for uniform input distributions, such as CPCs. The design and predicted performance of a novel two-state 2-d solar collector with a fixed circular primary mirror and nonimaging secondary are presented. This newly developed secondary gives a 25% improvement over conventional CPC secondaries. The technique may also be applied to stationary concentrators with variable load.
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-87ER13726
- OSTI ID:
- 390252
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960430-; ISBN 0-89553-168-2; TRN: IM9646%%538
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 25. American Solar Energy Society conference, Asheville, NC (United States), 13-18 Apr 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Solar `96 -- The 1996 American Solar Energy Society annual conference: Proceedings; Campbell-Howe, R.; Wilkins-Crowder, B. [eds.]; PB: 443 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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