Title :
Analysis on Concentrating Radiation Transfer to Solar Array with Concentrator
Author :
Dai Guilong ; Xia Xinlin ; Sun Chuang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Energy Sci. & Eng., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China
Abstract :
An algorithm of ray tracing Monte Carlo method was developed to simulate concentrating characteristics of solar radiation transfer to solar array with an ideal shape solar concentrator (ISSC). The effects of the solar angle, slope error and tracing error on the concentrated solar flux were investigated, and a uniformity factor is defined to evaluate the concentrating solar beam. The results of calculation show that the non-uniform factors lie in the range from 0.6 to 0.8 under these influencing effects.
Keywords :
Monte Carlo methods; solar cell arrays; solar energy concentrators; solar radiation; Monte Carlo method; ideal shape solar concentrator; ray tracing; solar array; solar radiation; solar radiation transfer; Algorithm design and analysis; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Power engineering and energy; Ray tracing; Reflection; Shape control; Solar power generation; Solar radiation; Sun;
Conference_Titel :
Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 2010 Asia-Pacific
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4812-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4813-5
DOI :
10.1109/APPEEC.2010.5449519
