simple methods to approximate cpc shape to preserve collection efficiency简单的方法来近似共产党形状保持收集效率.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2012, Article ID 863654, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/863654 Research Article Simple Methods to Approximate CPC Shape to Preserve Collection Efficiency David Jafrancesco, Elisa Sani, Daniela Fontani, Luca Mercatelli, Paola Sansoni, Annalisa Giannini, and Franco Francini Italian National Institute of Optics, CNR-INO, Largo E. Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Elisa Sani, elisa.sani@ino.it Received 26 October 2011; Revised 9 December 2011; Accepted 15 December 2011 Academic Editor: Wayne A. Anderson Copyright © 2012 David Jafrancesco et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) is the most efficient reflective geometry to collect light to an exit port. Anyway, to allow its actual use in solar plants or photovoltaic concentration systems, a tradeoff between system efficiency and cost reduction, the two key issues for sunlight exploitation, must be found. In this work, we analyze various methods to model an approximated CPC aimed to be simpler and more cost-effective than the ideal one, as well as to preserve the system efficiency. The manufacturing easiness arises from the use of truncated conic surfaces only, which can be realized by cheap machining techniques. We compare dif- ferent configurations on the basis of their collection efficiency, evaluated by means of nonsequential ray-tracing software. More- over, due to the fact that some configurations are beam dependent and for a closer approximation of a real case, the input beam is simulated as nonsymmetr