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The results are beneficial to the design of high-temperature solar absorbers for concentrated solar collectors. View full-text. Article. Solar collector with improved thermal concentration.
(PDF) Concentrating Solar Collector (CSC)
The results are beneficial to the design of high-temperature solar absorbers for concentrated solar collectors. View full-text. Article. Solar collector with improved thermal concentration.
Literature survey of concentrating solar collectors
This paper presents a detailed literature survey of various types of low and intermediate temperature concentrating collectors. The survey includes a Patent search (mostly novel concentrators) and examines the progress in the area of concentrating collectors since 1978. This is the first part of a two part study. Part two will deal with flat ...
External Concentrating Parabolic Collector (XCPC)
The XCPC is a patented Non-Imaging Concentrating Collector (NICC) Artic Solar''s unique non-imaging optics of the east/west reflector is tuned to the collector to ensure maximum absorption of solar energy, maintaining peak energy generation even at an exceedingly wide angle of acceptance. This results in a
Concentrating Solar Collectors
This chapter provides an introduction to concentrating solar collectors. The optical and thermal characteristics are described in relatively simple terms, and copious references to the more technical literature are given. ... Atlanta, Ga. Also U. S. patent No. 4,069,812, "Solar Concentrator and Energy Collection System" (1978). Google ...
Measuring Concentrated Solar Radiation Flux in a Linear Fresnel …
Linear Fresnel solar collectors are a promising and emerging solution to contribute to renewable heat supply in industrial processes with thermal energy demand in the medium temperature range (<250 °C). An innovative linear Fresnel collector (LFC) prototype has been designed, patented, and built at the Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA), Spain. This work presents the applied …
Concentrating Solar Power: Energy from Mirrors
Concentrating solar power plants also cre-ate two and a half times as many skilled jobs as traditional plants. Types of Systems Unlike solar (photovoltaic) cells, which use light to produce electricity, concentrat-ing solar power systems generate electric-ity with heat. Concentrating solar collectors use mirrors and lenses to con-
Solar Collectors, Non-concentrating | SpringerLink
Concentrating solar collectors are used to produce medium- or high-temperature process heat above 100°C/212°F, to run thermal cooling machines, or to produce electricity by using steam generators. ... In 1891, American Clarence Kemp received a patent for a solar heater device which combined the use of a black-colored water storage tank and ...
Integrated collector storage solar water heaters: survey and …
The direct conversion of solar to thermal energy is highly efficient, more environmental friendly and economically viable. Integrated collector storage solar water heaters (ICSSWH) converts the solar radiation directly into heat at an appreciable conversion rate and in many cases using concentrating means. These systems are compact, …
Concentrating Solar Collectors
Concentrating solar collectors use shaped mirrors or lens to provide higher temperatures that flat plate collectors. ... Surya -- a cylindrical tracking inflatable concentrating PV solar collector... Patent for the Surya... (pdf) An experimental, low-cost heliostat design that uses air pressure to focus and support the mirror. ...
Line-focus concentrating solar collectors
An overview of the line-focus concentrating solar collector technology and applications is presented. Included are a description of the collectors, some of the key features of the engineering approach, instantaneous and all-day performance and operating data, temperature capabilities and limitations for selected collectors, projected future capabilities for peak and …
Types of Concentrated Solar Collectors and their …
Disadvantages of Concentrated Solar Collectors. High Costs: The average production cost of concentrated solar thermal energy is much higher than other renewable resources. Though during the past few years, the …
Concentrating parabolic collectors: A patent survey
Spitzer [1] has patented a concentrating solar collector that uses China ink, Acidol or Vialon dyes as a direct absorbing black fluid. This concept reveals that increased efficiency can be obtained due to the elimination of the temperature difference across the pipe wall and the liquid film. Posnansky [2] uses such fluids as iodine or bromine ...
Electroplating of selective surfaces for concentrating solar collectors
Concentrating solar collectors use mirrors, lenses, or a combination thereof to focus solar radiation in the form of points or lines. In trough-shaped concentrating solar collectors, the reflector is formed as a curved elongated mirror that reflects solar radiation onto a receiver arranged along the focal line of the reflector.
US4153042A
A solar collector comprised of a frame and a plurality of tubular collector elements. Each collector element is comprised of an outer transparent tube, a metallic absorber tube, and an intermediate transparent tube which encloses the absorber tube. The absorber tube is coated with an absorptive coating and the outer tube is coated over a significant portion of its …
Concentrating solar collector with solid optical element
A Cassegrain-type concentrating solar collector cell includes primary and secondary mirrors disposed on opposing convex and concave surfaces of a light …
Solar Collectors
In concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants, collectors reflect and concentrate sunlight and redirect it to a receiver, where it is converted to heat and then used to generate electricity. In tower (or central receiver) plants, mirrors, known as heliostats, track the sun on two axes, with each heliostat typically on its own base ...
Types of Concentrated Solar Collectors and their Advantages ...
Disadvantages of Concentrated Solar Collectors. High Costs: The average production cost of concentrated solar thermal energy is much higher than other renewable resources. Though during the past few years, the average cost has dropped to $0.20/kWh. Still, the costs are high as in comparison, the average production cost of solar PV is in the ...
Solar Fields of Concentrating Collectors | SpringerLink
In the solar field of line-concentrating collectors the HTF is usually heated from a minimum temperature determined by storage temperatures, operational constraints of the HTF (e.g. freezing point, viscosity of the fluid) to a maximum temperature determined by solar collector performance, application requirements and HTF stability limits.
US9651277B2
Apparatus for a concentrating solar collector is disclosed, comprising: A nested main frame and reflector carriage with vertically folding one-piece preformed reflector support panels, to which individually replaceable pieces of mirror-like material of various kinds may be mounted to make a Fresnel-type array. A hand-winch operated cable system provides for a full range of reflector …
Concentrating Solar Collectors
Concentrating solar collectors use shaped mirrors or lens to provide higher temperatures that flat plate collectors. ... Surya -- a cylindrical tracking inflatable concentrating PV solar collector... Patent for the Surya... (pdf) An …
Concentrated photovoltaic and thermal solar energy collector
This invention relates to a solar energy collector that converts solar radiation into both electrical and thermal energy. More specifically this invention relates to a concentrating solar energy collector with an integrated construction that minimizes cost, bulk, and weight, and maximizes overall efficiency. Typical non-concentrating solar collectors use photovoltaic cells over the …
US8058546B1
The invention relates to concentrating solar collectors. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Conventional photovoltaic cells are more efficient at higher sun magnifications, if the cells...
SOLABOLIC | Next Generation of Parabolic Trough Solar Collectors
Over 100 years ago, suspension bridges vastly increased the span and reduced the material consumption and manufacturing costs for bridge technology. The SOLABOLIC ® patented parabolic trough can do the same for the concentrated solar power (CSP) industry.
Electroplating of selective surfaces for concentrating solar collectors
A concentrating solar collector uses mirrors, lenses, or combinations thereof, to focus the solar radiation in form of a point or a line. In trough-formed concentrating solar collectors a reflector is formed as a curved elongated mirror, which reflects the solar radiation on a receiver arranged along a focus-line of the reflector.
Concentrating solar collector (Patent)
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Concentrating solar collector with shielding mirrors
One aspect of the invention relates to an arrangement for use in a concentrating solar collector that involves a solar receiver that is covered by a shielding mirror. The shielding mirror is attached with and positioned over the solar receiver to help deflect incident light away from the underlying solar receiver. In various embodiments, the shielding mirror is arranged to direct …
Fixed position concentrating solar collector (Patent)
A fixed position concentrating solar collector in the form of a trough having an inner surface reflective to solar radiation and formed to direct the sun''s rays entering the trough onto a radiation absorber element, the trough having end structures capable of selectively reflecting solar radiation into the trough or of being made transparent ...
Sunaxer Solar Receivers
Through a patented heat treatment, the solar receiver reaches a solar absorptance of 96% and thermal emittance of 12%. 03. Sunaxer receivers boost the efficiency of any concentrating solar collector Our team Anna Krammer Co-founder & Material scientist Maxime Lagier ...
History, Current State, and Future of Linear Fresnel Concentrating ...
A novel, low-cost linear Fresnel collector for concentrating solar power applications is being developed by Hyperlight Energy (Hyperlight) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Hyperlight is currently deploying their linear Fresnel collector technology in a half-acre pilot loop near Brawley, California. The optical performance of ...
Solar Collectors, Non-concentrating | SpringerLink
''Solar Collectors, Non-concentrating'' published in ''Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology'' Skip to main content. Advertisement ... In 1909, William J. Bailey patented a new design. He reduced the heat losses by placing an insulated storage tank inside the house and exposed the solar collector to the sun. The two separate ...
WO2014043483A3
Systems, methods, and apparatus by which solar energy may be collected to provide heat, electricity, or a combination of heat and electricity are disclosed herein.
Proceedings of the concentrating solar collector workshop: Key ...
This report comprises the proceedings of a solar thermal workshop on the key technical issues involved in the research and development of concentrating solar collectors. The workshop was held at Sandia National Laboratories on October 7 and 8, 1986.