Performance evaluation of two-dimensional compound elliptic lens concentrators using a yearly distributed insolation model

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-19

  Yoshioka, K ^a   Suzuki, A ^a   Saitoh, T ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical concentration ratio (OCR); Two dimensional compound elliptic tens (2D CEL); Two dimensional compound parabolic concentrator (2D CPC)

Indexed keywords

LENSES; SOLAR RADIATION;

COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATOR; ELLIPTIC LENS CONCENTRATORS; OPTICAL CONCENTRATION RATIO (OCR);

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 0033078102     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-0248(98)00161-5     Document Type: Article

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