An optical analysis of a static 3-D solar concentrator

Solar Energy

Volumn 88, Issue , 2013, Pages 57-70

  Saleh Ali, Imhamed M ^a   O'Donovan, Tadhg S ^a   Reddy, K S ^b   Mallick, Tapas K ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Elliptical Hyperboloid Concentrator; Ray trace modeling; Solar concentrator; Solar optical efficiency

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE ANGLE; CONCENTRATING TECHNOLOGY; CONCENTRATION RATIO; EFFECTIVE CONCENTRATION; ELLIPTICAL HYPERBOLOID CONCENTRATOR; FLUX DISTRIBUTIONS; INCIDENCE ANGLES; MANUFACTURING METHODS; OPTICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; RAY-TRACE; SOLAR THERMAL APPLICATIONS;

ASPECT RATIO; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EFFICIENCY; GEOMETRY;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

GEOMETRY; OPTICAL METHOD; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOFTWARE; SOLAR POWER; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84871486569     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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