Dish type solar energy concentrator and design method thereof

Abstract

The invention provides a dish type solar energy concentrator. The bottom of a dish surface is provided with a circular opening, the dish surface is a rotation curved surface, and the bus of the rotation curved surface is a curve based on a specific first-order nonlinear differential equation. Disclosed is also a design method of the dish type solar energy concentrator. According to a light uniform reflection principle and related optical geometry knowledge, the specific first-order nonlinear differential equation bus equation of the rotation curved surface of the dish surface is derived through calculating. According to the dish type solar energy concentrator and the design method thereof, the dish type solar energy concentrator is provided with the dish bottom opening, and the rotation curved surface bus of the dish surface is a specific first-order nonlinear differential equation curve, so that the dish type solar energy concentrator can form quite uniform hot-fluid distribution on a receiver, and the energy conversion efficiency and other integration performance of the concentrator are substantially improved. Therefore, the dish type solar energy concentrator and the design method thereof are especially suitable for an optically focused photovoltaic solar device of a large-dimension receiver.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a dish-type solar concentrator and a design method thereof, belonging to the technical field of solar concentrators. Background technique [0002] As a clean, pollution-free and inexhaustible renewable energy, solar energy has increasingly become a research hotspot in today's energy field. Especially in recent years, the rapid development of concentrating photovoltaic solar technology has not only gradually reduced the total system cost by reducing the raw materials of photovoltaic cells, but also effectively improved the energy conversion efficiency and electricity production, so it has been more and more widely used. The concentrating photovoltaic solar device adopts a dish-type concentrator, and the reflector of the dish-type concentrator is a rotating paraboloid, which has good light-concentrating performance and heat-collecting performance. [0003] However, the existing dish solar concentrators also have inherent defects...

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[0006] The purpose of the present invention is to solve the problems existing in existing dish solar concentrators, such as receiver shading, rotating paraboloid geometry, etc., which cause uneven distribution of receiver heat flow, affect light concentration performance, and reduce energy conversion efficiency. Insufficient, provide a dish type solar concentrator with an opening at the bottom of the dish s

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