Utilization of cassegrain feed parabolic antenna design in increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic module

This paper presents the design of a transportable solar concentrating and tracking parabolic trough reflector that gathers higher energy yield in its photovoltaic (PV) module using the concept of the Cassegrain antenna system wherein the sun´s rays are dashed to the structure´s primary and secondary reflector before they are converged to the polycrystalline solar panel located at the trough´s focus. Based from the system evaluation, the power output gathered from the whole system is 36.05% and 9.05% more effective than the static and sun-tracking solar panel, respectively. Likewise, the project yielded a solar panel efficiency of 12.94% which is 4.67% and 1.17% greater than the ones produced by the static and sun-tracking PV cell, correspondingly. Moreover, it has been calculated that the whole system charges 2 hours and 16.81 minutes faster than the static PV cell´s battery, and 24.15 minutes quicker than the sun-tracking solar panel´s battery.