Comparison of thermal and optical performance of Linear Fresnel and Parabolic Trough Concentrator

Producing electricity from solar energy collected by the different solar concentrator technologies has taken a great interest in recent decades. Concentrating solar technologies are in different stages of development, most of them have passed the testing phases reaching the commercial market. In thi...

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Published in2015 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA) pp. 626 - 629
Main Authors Ahmed, Mohamed H., Rady, Mohamed, Amin, Amr M. A., Montagnino, Fabio Maria, Paredes, Filippo
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2015
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component
end loss factor
Geophysical measurement techniques
Ground penetrating radar
linear freenel concentrator
Mathematical model
optical efficency
Optical losses
Optical receivers
Optical reflection
parabolic trough concentrator
Power generation
thermal solar
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Summary:Producing electricity from solar energy collected by the different solar concentrator technologies has taken a great interest in recent decades. Concentrating solar technologies are in different stages of development, most of them have passed the testing phases reaching the commercial market. In this paper a comparison between the thermal performances of the most promising two collector technologies, i.e. Linear Fresnel Collector (LFC) and Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC), was carried out. The comparison is based on power/land consumption ratio, optical and thermal efficiency at nominal conditions. A numerical simulation of the optical and the thermal performance of both collector technologies was built using the Engineering Equation Solver (EES) software. From the output results, the PTC confirmed its better optical and thermal performance, while the LFC has shown a better use of the land.
DOI:10.1109/ICRERA.2015.7418488