Publications related to Compact linear Fresnel reflector

Solar-Driven High-Temperature Electrolysis Reactor for Fuel Processing : Modeling, Optimization, and Experimentation

Solar-driven high-temperature electrolysis (HTE) and thermochemical cycles (TCC) are two promising pathways for fuel processing and energy storage, which are considered in this thesis. The goals of this thesis are: i) offering engineering guidelines at sys ...

EPFL2018

Comparison-Based Optical Assessment of Hyperboloid and Ellipsoid Reflectors in a Beam-Down Solar Tower System With Linear Fresnel Heliostats

Meng Lin

Beam-down concentrating solar tower (BCST) is known for its merits in easy installation and maintenance as well as lower convection heat loss of the central receiver (CR) when comparing to a traditional concentrated solar tower system. A point-line-couplin ...

ASME2017

Optical and structural analysis of sol-gel derived Cu-Co-Mn-Si oxides for black selective solar nanocomposite multilayered coatings

Andreas Schueler, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Marina Aymara González Lazo, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard, Pierre Loesch, Martin Joly, Martin Python, Thomas Gascou, Yannik Antonetti

In this paper, we report the preparation of the precursor solutions for the deposition of Cu-Co-Mn-Si oxides by a sot-gel method in order to produce black selective coatings for CSP receiver tubes. Their optical properties were investigated by means of spe ...

Elsevier2015

Demonstration of a 5x5 cm(2) self-tracking solar concentrator

Eric Tremblay, Volker Günter Zagolla

Solar concentration is using optics in order to minimize the amount of expensive photovoltaic cell material needed. For concentration factors higher than approximately 4, tracking the sun's position is needed to keep the focal spot on the solar cell. Based ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Multi-band reflectarray antennas in Ku and THz frequency bands

Hamed Hasani

Printed reflectarrays are low-cost, low-profile high gain antennas demonstrating distinctive advantages over conventional parabolic reflectors and phased-arrays. The flat, low weight reflecting surface of a reflectarray makes it an attractive alternative w ...

EPFL2015

Optical Design of Multisource High-Flux Solar Simulators

Sophia Haussener

We present a systematic approach to the design of a set of high-flux solar simulators (HFSSs) for solar thermal, thermochemical, and materials research. The generic simulator concept consists of an array of identical radiation modules arranged in concentri ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2015

Demonstration and future potential of a self-tracking phase change actuator

Eric Tremblay, Volker Günter Zagolla

State-of-the-art concentrators use free-space optics to concentrate sunlight onto photovoltaic cells. To achieve high concentration factors it is necessary to track the sun's position. In current systems, mechanical actuators keep the focal spot in the sol ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Self-tracking phase change concentrator device demonstrator

Eric Tremblay, Volker Günter Zagolla

Concentration photovoltaic systems uses free-space optics to concentrate sunlight onto photovoltaic cells, using mechanical trackers to accurately track the sun's position and keep the focal spot on the PV cell. We recently proposed and demonstrated a proo ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Origin and nature of measurement bias in catadioptric parallel goniophotometers

Marilyne Andersen, Boris Clément Karamata

We briefly categorize and compare parallel goniophotometers, which are instruments capable of simultaneously measuring the far-field distribution of light scattered by a surface or emitted by a source over a large solid angle. Little is known about the acc ...

2014

A Passive Louver-Based Daylighting System

Marilyne Andersen

A daylighting system for use in a building including a louver array having a first longitudinal element, and a second longitudinal element spaced therefrom. At least one of the first and second elements has an asymmetrical profile, each of the first and se ...

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)2013

Modelling of the receiver transient flux distribution due to cloud passages on a solar tower thermal power plant

Daniel Favrat, Germain Augsburger

As more and more solar tower thermal power plants are being operated, built or planned, effort is put both on the development and research to bring costs down and increase the plant efficiency. In those plants, the central receiver is one of the key compon ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

Efficiency of a micro-bubble reflector based, self-adaptive waveguide solar concentrator

Eric Tremblay, Volker Günter Zagolla

State of the art solar concentrators use free-space, non-imaging optics to concentrate sunlight. Mechanical actuators keep the focal spot on a small solar cell by tracking the sun's position. Planar concentrators emerged recently that employ a waveguide sl ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

Utilization of Direct and Diffuse Sunlight in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell - Silicon Photovoltaic Hybrid Concentrator System

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Paul Liska

The concept of a tandem hybrid concentrator solar module was demonstrated from a dye-sensitized TiO2 solar cell (DSSCs) and a silicon p-n junction solar cell. The test system employed DSSC and Si cells with indoor AM1.5G efficiencies of 9.1 and 18.1%, resp ...

2011