Solar energy generator for obtaining thermal and/or electrical energy deflects scattered radiation from total reflection optical elements towards absorber or photovoltaic system

摘要

The generator uses an auto-focussing tube-like prism system for tracking the sun optically along one axis, without mechanical moving parts. An energy concentrator comprises prisms arranged in parallel, in combination with optically transparent elements (2) for utilizing incident total reflection to concentrate sunlight onto an absorber (4 or 5) and/or a photovoltaic system (6).