Development and performance analysis of compound parabolic solar concentrators with reduced gap losses – oversized reflector

Experimental analysis and performance of

Experimental analysis and performance of an asymmetric inverted absorber compound parabolic concentrating solar collector at various absorber gap configurations

✍ A.Farouk Kothdiwala; P.C. Eames; B. Norton 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 288 KB

The performance of an asymmetric inverted absorber line axis compound parabolic concentrating collector (IACPC) was evaluated under a solar simulator. The lACPC had a concentration ratio of 2 and a maximum length-to-width ratio of 2.5 with provision to adapt from an untruncated collector to a half h