Solar collector tube as secondary concentrator for significantly enhanced optical performance of LCPV/T system

Yizhou Zhu, Benchi Ma, Zilong Zeng, Hewei Lou, Yi He and Dengwei Jing

Renewable Energy, 2022, vol. 193, issue C, 418-433

Abstract: Improving efficiency, controlling cost and reducing the temperature of solar cells are great challenges for linear concentrated photovoltaic/thermal systems (LCPV/T). In this work, we report a new design with a linear Fresnel lens as the primary optical element and an additional multi-functioned solar collector tube as the secondary optical element. With such design, the low-cost solar collector tube acts multiple roles simultaneously, i.e., lens, spectral beam-splitting filter and heat collector. It was demonstrated that the addition of such multi-functional solar collector tube in LCPV/T system can significantly increase the irradiation uniformity and decrease the average temperature of photovoltaic (PV) module under the same thermal condition, which results in the improved electricity output performance of PV module. Under the solar irradiance and ambient temperature for a typical daytime, the average electrical, thermal and total energy efficiencies of the proposed system are 11.39%, 64.72% and 76.11%, respectively. Our work should be of guidance for the design of LCPV/T system with high efficiency, long-life and low cost.

Keywords: Concentrated photovoltaic/thermal system; Secondary optical element; Solar collector; Spectral beam-splitting filter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2022.04.165

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