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The modelling of solar irradiation in concentrated solar power (CSP) applications is traditionally done with ray-tracing methods, e.g. the Monte Carlo method. For the evaluation of CSP receivers, the results from ray-tracing codes are typically used to provide boundary conditions to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes for the solution of conjugate heat transfer in the receivers. There are both...
Compact linear Fresnel receivers can be modified to include an etendue conserving mirror field as opposed to a flat field. Etendue can be used as an indicator of the losses within the system and therefore the optical optimization of the mirror field seeks to conserve incoming etendue. This can be done once for peak conditions and subsequently fixed with mirrors rotating throughout the day; or the...
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