Accurate altitude-azimuth tracking angle formulas for a heliostat with mirror-pivot offset and other fixed geometrical errors

Solar Energy

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1091-1100

  Guo, Minghuan ^a   Wang, Zhifeng ^a   Zhang, Jianhan ^a   Sun, Feihu ^a   Zhang, Xiliang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Geometrical errors; Heliostat; Mirror pivot offset; Tracking

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH AXIS; AZIMUTH TRACKING; BEAM TRACKING; DUAL AXIS; ELEVATION AXIS; GEOMETRICAL ERROR; HELIOSTAT; HIGH PRECISION TRACKING; MIRROR SURFACES; NON-ORTHOGONALITY; ROTATIONAL AXES; SOLAR FIELDS; TRACKING; TRACKING ACCURACY; TRACKING ERRORS; TYPICAL DAY;

ERRORS; GEOMETRY; MIRRORS;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALTITUDE; AZIMUTH; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; PRECISION; TRACKING;

EID: 79954616716     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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