Design and Optical Evaluation of a Novel Asymmetric Lens-Walled Compound Parabolic Concentrator (ALCPC) Integration with Building South Wall

Solar concentrating system is an effective way of combing solar energy with the building to satisfy the needs besides of electricity and hot water, also includes building heating, refrigeration, dehumidification, which require higher quality heat source. This paper put forward a novel static asymmetric lens-walled compound parabolic concentrator (ALCPC), which is composed of the mirror CPC and lens-walled structure, and can make full use of the total internal reflection and specular reflection. The optical performance of the ALCPC under the real application condition was established by software Lighttools®. Furthermore, the optimization structure by rotating the absorber away from the wall at some specific angles was also adopted for a wider scope applications. The results showed that the ALCPC has a large acceptance angle of 59° with highest optical efficiency of around 90% for most of the incident angles and has a relatively uniform flux distribution. In addition, annual performance analysis of the ALCPC was also done for Beijing (39°54’N, 116°23’E). The ALCPC as a static concentrator would be a good solution for the building south wall integration. © 2017 The Author(s). Published by solarlits.com. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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