Optical efficiency study of PV Crossed Compound Parabolic Concentrator

Applied Energy

Volumn 102, Issue , 2013, Pages 868-876

  Sellami, Nazmi ^a   Mallick, Tapas K ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Building integration; CPC; Optical modelling; Photovoltaics; Ray trace

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EFFICIENCY; MATLAB; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

BUILDING INTEGRATION; CPC; OPTICAL MODELLING; PHOTOVOLTAICS; RAY TRACE;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FUEL CELL; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOFTWARE; SOLAR POWER; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84870744137     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.08.052     Document Type: Article

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