Design of a solar concentrator combining paraboloidal and hyperbolic mirrors using ray tracing method

Optics Communications

Volumn 282, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 360-366

  Chen, Chi Feng ^a   Lin, Chih Hao ^a   Jan, Huang Tzung ^a,b   Yang, Yun Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Concentration; Concentrator tracing error; Ray tracing; Solar concentrator; Solar energy; Two stage concentrator

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; MIRRORS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

CONCENTRATION; CONCENTRATION RATIOS; CONCENTRATOR TRACING ERROR; HIGHER CONCENTRATIONS; HYPERBOLIC MIRRORS; HYPERBOLOIDAL MIRRORS; MIRROR SHAPES; NUMERICAL APERTURES; PRIMARY MIRRORS; RAY-TRACING METHODS; SECONDARY MIRRORS; SOLAR FLUXES; TWO STAGE CONCENTRATOR;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

EID: 56949104441     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.10.017     Document Type: Article

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