Design and Development of a Hybrid Tracker Point Focus Fresnel Passively Cooled Concentrator Photovoltaic Array

摘要

The design and development of an evolutionary concentrating photovoltaic array is described. The goal of this program was to develop a reliable PV concentrator array suitable for intermediate to central station power applications. The 9.4kW array developed uses eighty passively cooled point focus Fresnel concentrator modules mounted onto a new tilt-roll tube tracker. A key feature of the technical approach was that commercial contractors were used in the design and fabrication of several of the critical subsystems: tracker structure, microprocessor based controller and silicon cell mounts. The aim of this approach has been to maximize the near term production potential of these critical array subsystems and components. (ERA citation 09:013495)