Title: Performance comparison of dish solar collector system with mirror arrays and receiver shapes

Authors: Taebeom Seo, Hyunseok Cho, Sangjune Oh, Juhan Lee, Yongheack Kang, Guiyoung Han

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, Yonghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon, 402 751, Korea. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School, Inha University, Yonghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon, 402 751, Korea. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School, Inha University, Yonghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon, 402 751, Korea. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School, Inha University, Yonghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon, 402 751, Korea. ' Korea Institute of Energy Research, 71-2 Jang-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305 343, Korea. ' Department of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Cheoncheon-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, 440 746, Korea

Abstract: The thermal performance comparisons of the dish solar collector system are numerically investigated with mirror arrays and receiver shapes. In order to compare the performances of the dish solar collector systems, six different mirror arrays and four different receiver shapes are considered and the radiative heat flux distribution on the inside of the receiver is analysed. The solar irradiation reflected by mirrors is traced using the Monte-Carlo method. The results show that the dome type has the best performance in receiver shapes and the 2AND4INLINE has the best performance in mirror arrays except the perfect mirror.

Keywords: dish solar collectors; mirror arrays; receiver shapes; radiative heat flux; thermal performance; solar irradiation; Monte Carlo simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/PCFD.2009.024821

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal, 2009 Vol.9 No.3/4/5, pp.208 - 216

Published online: 01 May 2009 *

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