Nonimaging optics in solar energy

• Main Author: O'Gallagher, J.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2008.
• Series: Synthesis lectures on energy and the environment, technology, science, and society ; #2.
• Subjects: Optics.; Solar collectors.; Solar concentrators.; Solar thermal energy.
• Online Access: Abstract with links to full text

Nonimaging optics is a subdiscipline of optics whose development over the last 35-40 years was led by scientists from the University of Chicago and other cooperating individuals and institutions. The approach provides a formalism that allows the design of optical devices that approach the maximum ph...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• CPCS
• Practical design of CPC thermal collectors
• Practical design of CPC PV concentrators
• Two-stage non-imaging concentrators for solar thermal applications
• Two-stage non-imaging concentrators for solar PV applications
• Selected demonstrations of non-imaging concentrator performance
• The importance of economic factors in effective solar concentrator design
• Ultra-high concentration
• Bibliography.