Solar concentrator
AssigneeUniversite De Liege
InventorsSerge Habraken, Jean-Marc Defise, Jean-Paul Collette
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Abstract
A solar concentrator module comprising a front lens on its front face, a receiver cell on its rear face and a reflector between the front lens and the receiver cell, said reflector having inclined sidewalls along at least two opposite sides of the receiver cell characterised in that the reflectors are truncated and in that the sidewalls of the reflectors are inclined in such a way that, for a 0[deg] off-pointing, solar rays are reflected on the inclined side walls of the reflectors before impinging on the receiver cell, to produce a relatively uniform illumination on the receiver cell for a range of off pointing acceptance angle superior to zero degree.
Claims14
A solar concentrator module comprising a front lens on its front face and a receiver cell on its rear face, a reflector between the front lens and the receiver cell, said reflector having inclined sidewalls along at least two opposite sides of the receiver cell, and a flat perpendicular reflector at the center of the module, characterised in that the reflectors are truncated to the extent that the ratio between the concentrator module height H and the focal length F of the lens is between 0.6 and 0.9 and in that said inclined sidewalls are inclined in such a way that, for a 0° off-pointing, solar rays are reflected on the inclined sidewalls of the reflector before impinging on the receiver cell, so that a relatively uniform illumination on the receiver cell occurs for a range of off pointing acceptance angle superior to zero degree.
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