The effect of receiver geometry on the optical performance of a small-scale solar cavity receiver for parabolic dish applications

By Ahmed M. Daabo, S. Mahmoud, R. Al-Dadah. 2016

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Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) can be used as an efficient low cost energy conversion system to produce different types of energy, such as electricity, through the use of concentrated parabolic dish systems. In the study of CSP, most of the researchers focus on the heat losses and their relationships to the receivers' geometries. The present study concentrates on the optical efficiency as well as the flux distribution of the three different geometries: cylindrical, conical and spherical, of a cavity receiver, with the objective of analysing their behaviour using an advanced ray tracing method.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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• A review of concentrating solar thermal collectors with and without nanofluids (2018, background): “[126] who compared a conical, a spherical and a cylindrical cavity.”