Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 38, Issue 2, 0208002(2018)

Design Method of Fan-Shaped Ray-Leakage-Free Solar Concentrator

Peng Yin, Xiping Xu*, Zhaoguo Jiang, and Cong Zhao
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  • College of Photoelectrical Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China
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    (a) Ray tracing of a concentration module; (b) ray tracing concentration modules unit; (c) schematic of fan-shaped ray-leakage-free solar concentrator structure
    Schematic of modification procedure of the concentration module. (a) Parabola curve in the reflective surface; (b) two-paraboloid structure; (c) concentration module trimmed off
    Schematic of the concentration module unit
    (a) Schematic of the hemisphere coupling structure; (b) schematic of air tri-prism structure
    (a) Schematic of the edge-ray leakage-free propagating path in x-z plane; (b) top view of the fan-shaped ray-leakage-free solar concentrator
    Schematic of the edge-ray propagating path in the normal part of the lightguide in x-z plane
    Schematic of the single-axis tracker movement trace
    Schematic of the scrollable prism sheets
    Schematic of the sun position in the sky
    (a) Schematic of the angle γ0 between the tracker and ground; (b) schematic of the tracker rotates α'around the x'-axis
    Diagram of geometrical concentration ratio varies with parabola coefficient and concentration module amount
    Diagram of geometrical concentration ratio varies with parabola coefficient and posterior paraboloid width
    Diagram of geometrical concentration ratio and optical efficiency varies with the parabola coefficient
    Diagram of the base angle of prism varies with incident angles of light
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    Peng Yin, Xiping Xu, Zhaoguo Jiang, Cong Zhao. Design Method of Fan-Shaped Ray-Leakage-Free Solar Concentrator[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2018, 38(2): 0208002

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    Paper Information

    Category: Geometric Optics

    Received: Jul. 11, 2017

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Aug. 30, 2018

    The Author Email: Xu Xiping (xxp@cust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS201838.0208002

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