Chinese Optics, Volume. 16, Issue 6, 1356(2023)

Design of focusing solar simulator based on free-form surface

Xiu-dong WEI1、*, Bai-lin LI1, Yu-hang ZHAO1, Jian-fang TANG2, Ji ZHANG2, Yong-huan HUANG2, and Ying-chao XU3
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  • 1Institute of Space Optoelectronics Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China
  • 2CGN Solar Energy Development Co. LTD, Beijing 100000, China
  • 3School of Optoelectronics and Communication Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen 361024, China
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    The concentrating solar simulator can obtain solar radiation spots with high-power convergence, which has important applications in the fields of solar thermal power generation and thermochemical research. To obtain uniform solar radiation spots, a free-form surface condenser design method based on non-imaging optics is proposed, and its design principle and specific method are described. The designed free-form condenser is compared with a non-coaxial ellipsoidal condenser with the same containment angle, and the correctness of its design method is verified by simulation analysis. The simulation results show that when a xenon lamp with a rated power of 6 kW is used as the light source, the single-lamp solar simulator composed of a free-form condenser can produce a spot with an average irradiance of 274.4 kW/m2 in the target region with a diameter of 60 mm. The spot’s unevenness decreases from 18.28% to 5.69% compared with that of a non-coaxial ellipsoidal solar simulator. The seven-lamp solar simulator can produce a spot with an average irradiance of 1.65 MW/m2, with a spot unevenness that decreases from 13.19% to 5.49%.

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    Xiu-dong WEI, Bai-lin LI, Yu-hang ZHAO, Jian-fang TANG, Ji ZHANG, Yong-huan HUANG, Ying-chao XU. Design of focusing solar simulator based on free-form surface[J]. Chinese Optics, 2023, 16(6): 1356

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    Category: Original Article

    Received: Oct. 9, 2022

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Nov. 29, 2023

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    DOI:10.37188/CO.2022-0207

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