Engineering Development Studies for Integrated Evacuated CPC Arrays. Final Report, January 19, 1981-January 18, 1982

摘要

A new evacuated tube concentrator which achieves respectable high temperature performance (100 exp 0 C to 300 exp 0 C) has been developed by the University of Chicago and GTE Research Laboratories. The design concept utilizes nonimaging CPC type concentration integrated into each tube by shaping the outer glass vacuum envelope. The detailed design, prototype fabrication and preliminary test measurements are reviewed. In addition the results of this first study specifically devoted to engineering development questions related to practical applications of this collector concept are summarized. Questions having to do with the deployment of medium to large area arrays, optimizations of the manifolding of individual tube panels, selected near term applications (with an emphasis on residential cooling based on Rankine driven chillers) and long term performance projections are addressed. (ERA citation 07:043037)