Nonimaging Fresnel Lenses Design and Performance of Solar Concentrators /
This book offers a detailed and comprehensive account of the engineering of the world's first nonimaging Fresnel lens solar concentrator. The book closes a gap in solar concentrator design, and describes nonimaging refractive optics and its numerical mathematics . The contents follow a systems...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2001.
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| Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2001. |
| Σειρά: | Springer Series in Optical Sciences,
83 |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Executive Summary
- 1 Lenses and Mirrors for Solar Energy
- 1.1 Photovoltaic or Thermal Concentration?
- 1.2 Classification of Solar Concentrators
- 2 Nonimaging Optics
- 2.1 Nonimaging Concentration
- 2.2 Generalized Ideal Concentration
- 2.3 Lagrange Invariant
- 2.4 Nonimaging Mirrors
- 3 Fresnel Lens Optics
- 3.1 Reflection and Refraction
- 3.2 Total Internal Reflection
- 3.3 Deviation
- 3.4 Refractive Indices
- 3.5 Minimum Dispersion
- 4 Earlier Fresnel Lenses
- 4.1 History of Fresnel Lenses
- 4.2 Recent Developments
- 4.3 Simple Fresnel Lenses
- 4.4 Domed or Arched Fresnel Lenses
- 5 Nonimaging Fresnel Lens Design
- 5.1 Applied Nonimaging Lens Design
- 5.2 The Optimum Linear Lens
- 5.3 Rotational Symmetry
- 5.4 Arbitrary Shapes
- 5.5 Diverger Lens for Lighting
- 6 Lens Evaluation
- 6.1 Losses
- 6.2 Transmittance
- 6.3 Geometrical Losses
- 6.4 Concentration Ratios
- 6.5 Nonideal Concentration
- 7 Optimization of Stationary Concentrators
- 7.1 Choice of Stationary Collector
- 7.2 Solar Radiation Model
- 7.3 Radiation on a Tilted Plane
- 7.4 Acceptance by a Solar Concentrator
- 7.5 Compound Parabolic Concentrators
- 7.6 Quasi-3D Concentrators
- 8 Prototype Design, Manufacturing, and Testing
- 8.1 Prototypes of Choice
- 8.2 Prism Size
- 8.3 Lens Redesign
- 8.4 Lens Manufacturing
- 8.5 Sample
- 8.6 Preliminary Tests
- 8.7 Partial Absorber Illumination
- 8.8 Tracking
- 9 Concentrated Sunlight and Photovoltaic Conversion
- 9.1 Flux Density
- 9.2 Solar Disk Size and Brightness
- 9.3 Spectral Color Dispersion
- 9.4 Concentrator Cells
- 9.5 Multijunction Devices
- 9.6 Photovoltaic System Performance
- 9.7 Concentration and Cost
- 10 Solar Thermal Concentrator Systems
- 10.1 Solar Resources
- 10.2 Solar Sorption Air Conditioning
- 10.3 Energy and Exergy
- 10.4 Exergy of a Concentrating Collector
- 11 Solar Concentration in Space
- 11.1 Space Concentrator Arrays
- 11.2 Design Challenges in Space
- 11.3 Lenses and Mirrors!
- References.
