Review on Solar Thermal Power Concentrators

Review on Solar Thermal Power Concentrators

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Compound Parabolic Concentrator; DCPC: Dielectric Photovoltaic Thermal Compound Parabolic Concentrator; Aa: Aperture Area; Ar: Receiver of Area; HTF: Heat Transfer Fluid; DTIRC: Dielectric Totally Internally Reflecting Concentrator; TIR: Total Internal Reflection; MSDTIRC: Mirror Symmetrical Dielectric Totally Internally Reflecting Concentrator; FHC...

Developments and Designs of Solar Engineering Fresnel Lenses

This paper deals with the suitability of Fresnel lenses of imaging and nonimaging designs for solar energy concentration. The paper's scope is the review of long known, and recently developed Fresnel lenses, and the analyes of their characteristics for utilization as solar concentrators, putting an emphasis on a lens designed by the authors. Nonimaging optics are presented as o ering the possib...

A review of nonimaging solar concentrators for stationary and passive tracking applications

The solar energy research community has realized the redundancy of image-forming while collecting/ concentrating solar energy with the discovery of the nonimaging type radiation collection mechanism in 1965. Since then, various nonimaging concentration mechanisms have proven their superior collection efficiency over their imaging counter-parts. The feasibility of using nonimaging concentrators ...

Conceptual Study of a Thermal Storage Module for Solar Power Plants with Parabolic Trough Concentrators

High-performance flat-panel solar thermoelectric generators with high thermal concentration.

The conversion of sunlight into electricity has been dominated by photovoltaic and solar thermal power generation. Photovoltaic cells are deployed widely, mostly as flat panels, whereas solar thermal electricity generation relying on optical concentrators and mechanical heat engines is only seen in large-scale power plants. Here we demonstrate a promising flat-panel solar thermal to electric po...