Optical modeling of a cylindrical-hemispherical receiver for parabolic dish concentrator.

Autor: Kumar KH; CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, 713209, West Bengal, India.; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India., Reddy DS; Thermal Energy Laboratory, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India., Karmakar M; CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, 713209, West Bengal, India. malay@cmeri.res.in.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Environmental science and pollution research international [Environ Sci Pollut Res Int] 2023 May; Vol. 30 (22), pp. 63121-63134. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 23.
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-26432-4
Abstrakt: Among all sub-systems of a solar thermal energy system, the receiver plays a significant role when it gets heat energy from the concentrator. The reliability of such systems depends on the amount of solar energy that the receiver collects and other optical parameters like focal length, aperture diameter, surface absorptivity, and slope error. The present paper discusses the optical analysis of a cylindrical-hemispherical receiver coupled with a parabolic dish concentrator having 3-m diameter. The study has been carried out using the SolTrace software by varying the parameters like receiver aperture diameter (D a ) ranging from 0.125 to 0.162 m, surface error of the concentrator varying from 1.7453 to 34.907 mrad, and also surface absorptivity (α) changing from 75 to 95% for different receiver distances (H) ranging from 1.7 to 1.95 m. The simulation results show that the optical efficiency is maximum when the receiver with 0.150-m aperture diameter is placed at a distance of 1.85 m from the concentrator. An increase in slope errors from 1.7453 to 17.453 mrad decreases the average optical efficiency by almost 50% for all receiver diameters. It is also noticed that uniform heat flux distribution can be achieved when the receiver's position is maintained at H = 1.85 m from the concentrator for 0.150-m receiver diameter and 95% absorptivity of the receiver surface. The simulated results of heat flux intensity on the receiver surface are then compared and validated by the experimental results available in the literature. The simulated optical efficiency of the present receiver is found to be 8% higher when compared with a conventional cylindrical receiver with similar dimensions.
(© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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