Preliminary ray tracing and experimental study on the effect of mirror coating on the optical efficiency of a solid dielectric compound parabolic concentrator

Energies

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3627-3639

  Pei, Gang ^a,b   Li, Guiqiang ^a,b   Su, Yuehong ^b   Ji, Jie ^a   Riffat, Saffa ^b   Zheng, Hongfei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Partial coating; Ray tracing; Solid CPC; Total internal reflection

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; MIRRORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATOR; HALF ACCEPTANCE ANGLES; INCIDENCE ANGLES; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; PARTIAL COATINGS; SOLID CPC; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 84866561937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en5093627     Document Type: Article

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