• DocumentCode
    3711682
  • Title

    Refractive concentrator optics architectures, tracker precision, and cumulative energy harvest

  • Author

    H. Schriemer;J.P.D. Cook;P. Sharma;L. de la Salle;F. Carle;P.M. White;V. Tatsiankou;N. Bosscher;J.E. Haysom;E. Dragomirescu;K. Hinzer

  • Author_Institution
    SUNLAB, University of Ottawa, ON, K1N6N5, Canada
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    Effective cost-reduction of tracked concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar power systems must optimize engineering of tracker precision against the angular acceptance of the concentrator optics. Wider CPV module angular acceptance allows cost reduction through relaxed tracker pointing precision. We assess field performance of a two-dimensional CPV tracker, and study several refractive concentrator optics architectures using triple-junction solar cells, including on-sun measurements of angular response compared to ray-tracing models, and cumulative energy harvest yield as a function of tracker pointing precision.
  • Keywords
    "Azimuth","Prototypes","Indexes","Indium gallium arsenide","Gyroscopes","Numerical models"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2015 IEEE 42nd
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356408
  • Filename
    7356408
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3711682