Design of a solar concentrator considering arbitrary surfaces

Martín Jiménez-Rodríguez; Maximino Avendaño-Alejo; Lidia Elizabeth Verduzco-Grajeda; Arturo I. Martínez-Enríquez; Reyes García-Díaz; Rufino Díaz-Uribe

doi:10.1117/12.2279876

16 October 2017 Design of a solar concentrator considering arbitrary surfaces

Martín Jiménez-Rodríguez, Maximino Avendaño-Alejo, Lidia Elizabeth Verduzco-Grajeda, Arturo I. Martínez-Enríquez, Reyes García-Díaz, Rufino Díaz-Uribe

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Proceedings Volume 10448, Optifab 2017; 104482J (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2279876
Event: SPIE Optifab, 2017, Rochester, New York, United States

Abstract

We study the propagation of light in order to efficiently redirect the reflected light on photocatalytic samples placed inside a commercial solar simulator, and we have designed a small-scale prototype of Cycloidal Collectors (CCs), resembling a compound parabolic collector. The prototype consists of either cycloidal trough or cycloidal collector having symmetry of rotation, which has been designed considering an exact ray tracing assuming a bundle of rays propagating parallel to the optical axis and impinging on a curate cycloidal surface, obtaining its caustic surface produced by reflection.

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Martín Jiménez-Rodríguez, Maximino Avendaño-Alejo, Lidia Elizabeth Verduzco-Grajeda, Arturo I. Martínez-Enríquez, Reyes García-Díaz, and Rufino Díaz-Uribe "Design of a solar concentrator considering arbitrary surfaces", Proc. SPIE 10448, Optifab 2017, 104482J (16 October 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2279876

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