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Solar concentrating lens and receiver

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6427321
A solar concentrating lens and receiver operating on azimuth and altitude axes according to the position of the sun and characterized by an array of elongated transparent slats spaced for ventilation and each of prism-lens configuration with a reflective base, for both refractive and reflective focus of heat rays through a narrow slot into a receiver and onto an absorber at a focal plane where heat absorption is into a fluid media within an insulated and vacuumized internally reflective chamber.
Assignee:
Reynolds and Taylor, Inc.
Patent Number(s):
US 4440155
OSTI ID:
6427321
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English