Journal
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Volume 75, Issue -, Pages 81-92Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.09.029
Keywords
Linear Fresnel collector; Solar field layout; Optical efficiency; Monte Carlo Ray Tracing
Funding
- Ministerio de Economia y Competividad [ENE2012-37950-C02-02]
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Linear Fresnel collectors still present a large margin to improve efficiency. Solar fields of this kind installed until current time, both prototypes and commercial plants, are designed with widths and shifts of mirrors that are constant across the solar field. However, the physical processes that limit the width of the mirrors depend on their relative locations to the receiver; the same applies to shading and blocking effects, that oblige to have a minimum shift between mirrors. In this work such phenomena are studied analytically in order to obtain a coherent design, able to improve the efficiency with no increase in cost. A ray tracing simulation along one year has been carried out for a given design, obtaining a moderate increase in radiation collecting efficiency in comparison to conventional designs. Moreover, this analytic theory can guide future designs aiming at fully optimizing linear Fresnel collectors' performance. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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