10% Loss of Incident Power through Solar Reactor Window: Myth or Good Rule of Thumb?
- Authors: Pozzobon V.1
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Affiliations:
- Université de Toulouse
- Issue: Vol 54, No 2 (2018)
- Pages: 131-133
- Section: Solar Energy Concentrators
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/0003-701X/article/view/149411
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S0003701X18020093
- ID: 149411
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Abstract
It is known that a solar beam crossing a window losses 10% of its incident power. Yet, this affirmation is not supported by many published scientific evidences. In this work, a heat flux mapping method was used to determine the heat flux distributions at the focal spot of a solar concentrating device without and with a window on the incident beams' trajectory. The presence of a window on the beams' trajectory induces a 12% loss of the total power and a 11% decrease of the peak heat flux density.
About the authors
V. Pozzobon
Université de Toulouse
Author for correspondence.
Email: victor.pozzobon@mines-albi.fr
France, Toulouse
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