Design optimisation of compound parabolic concentrator (cpc) for improved performance
A compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) is a well known non-imaging concentrator that will concentrate the solar radiation onto receiver (PV cell). This is also will lead to the decreases of concentration ratio but it will be negligible. In this paper, the flux distribution of untruncated and trunca...
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6979/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6979/1/Design_Optimisation_of_Compound_Parabolic_Concentrator_CPC_f.pdf |
| Summary: | A compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) is a well
known non-imaging concentrator that will concentrate the solar
radiation onto receiver (PV cell). This is also will lead to the
decreases of concentration ratio but it will be negligible. In this
paper, the flux distribution of untruncated and truncated 2-D hollow
compound parabolic trough concentrator (hCPTC) design is
presented. The untruncated design has initial height, H=193.4mm
with concentration ratio, C_(2-D)=4. This paper presents the optical
simulation of compound parabolic trough concentrator using raytracing
software TracePro. Results showed that, after the truncation,
the height of CPC reduced 45% from initial height with the
geometrical concentration ratio only decrease 10%. Thus, the cost of
reflector and material dielectric usage can be saved especially at
manufacturing site |
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