The several methods and result comparison of increasing the maximum concentration angle of compound parabolic concentrator (CPC)

• Main Authors: Tao, Tao, Zheng, Hongfei, Zhang, Xiang, He, Kaiyan
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics::Heat and thermodynamics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96065; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7280
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper simply discusses the structure and the principle of design of compound parabolic concentrator (CPC), introduces three methods of increasing the maximum concentration angle θ max: reflector translation, cutting fundus and reflec...