Springer Optical Sciences

Design and Performance of Solar Concentrators

By: Ralf Leutz, Akio Suzuki

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Hardcover | 31 July 2001

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Nonimaging Fresnel Lenses: Design and Performance of Solar Concentmtors; what are we talking about? It is easy to forget that you, dear reader, may not be one of those who work inexactly the same field as we do: nonimaging optics for the concentration of sunlight. You may be a researcher in some optical science interested in the core subject of this book: the world's first practical design of a nonimaging Fresnel lens concentrator. You may not be too excited about the collection of solar energy, but you would want a fuB description of the optical performance of the lens. Which you will get, mostly in terms of nonimaging optics, complete with test results, and set against the competition of imaging Fresnel lenses and mirror-based imaging and nonimaging concentrators. If you are a solar energy professional, you are likely to be interested in reading why nonimaging optics and solar energy coBection go together so weB. They do so, because the concentration of solar energy does not demand imaging qualities, but instead requires flexible designs of highly uniform flux concentrators coping with solar disk size, solar spectrum, and tracking errors. Nonimaging optics has been developed to perfection since its discovery in 1965, in dealing with solar power conversion. Much of this experience is useful in nonimaging optical design in other fields where the markets already are more rewarding than in solar power generation, such as optoelectronics.

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Executive Summary	p. 1
Lenses and Mirrors for Solar Energy	p. 3
Photovoltaic or Thermal Concentration?	p. 3
Classification of Solar Concentrators	p. 7
Nonimaging Optics	p. 15
Nonimaging Concentration	p. 15
Generalized Ideal Concentration	p. 22
Lagrange Invariant	p. 26
Nonimaging Mirrors	p. 28
Fresnel Lens Optics	p. 35
Reflection and Refraction	p. 35
Total Internal Reflection	p. 39
Deviation	p. 41
Refractive Indices	p. 44
Minimum Dispersion	p. 50
Earlier Fresnel Lenses	p. 53
History of Fresnel Lenses	p. 53
Recent Developments	p. 58
Simple Fresnel Lenses	p. 66
Domed or Arched Fresnel Lenses	p. 72
Nonimaging Fresnel Lens Design	p. 77
Applied Nonimaging Lens Design	p. 77
The Optimum Linear Lens	p. 79
Rotational Symmetry	p. 92
Arbitrary Shapes	p. 93
Diverger Lens for Lighting	p. 97
Lens Evaluation	p. 101
Losses	p. 101
Transmittance	p. 104
Geometrical Losses	p. 106
Concentration Ratios	p. 113
Nonideal Concentration	p. 119
Optimization of Stationary Concentrators	p. 127
Choice of Stationary Collector	p. 127
Solar Radiation Model	p. 129
Radiation on a Tilted Plane	p. 136
Acceptance by a Solar Concentrator	p. 139
Compound Parabolic Concentrators	p. 142
Quasi-3D Concentrators	p. 149
Prototype Design, Manufacturing, and Testing	p. 155
Prototypes of Choice	p. 155
Prism Size	p. 159
Lens Redesign	p. 161
Lens Manufacturing	p. 166
Sample	p. 170
Preliminary Tests	p. 171
Partial Absorber Illumination	p. 173
Tracking	p. 175
Concentrated Sunlight and Photovoltaic Conversion	p. 179
Flux Density	p. 179
Solar Disk Size and Brightness	p. 185
Spectral Color Dispersion	p. 187
Concentrator Cells	p. 192
Multijunction Devices	p. 195
Photovoltaic System Performance	p. 208
Concentration and Cost	p. 211
Solar Thermal Concentrator Systems	p. 217
Solar Resources	p. 217
Solar Sorption Air Conditioning	p. 222
Energy and Exergy	p. 229
Exergy of a Concentrating Collector	p. 236
Solar Concentration in Space	p. 245
Space Concentrator Arrays	p. 245
Design Challenges in Space	p. 251
Lenses and Mirrors!	p. 255
References	p. 257
Index	p. 269
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