Self-tracking solar concentration: Improvements to the demonstrator

Volker Zagolla; Eric Tremblay; Christophe Moser

doi:10.1364/OSE.2014.RF4B.2

Light, Energy and the Environment
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2014),
paper RF4B.2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OSE.2014.RF4B.2

Self-tracking solar concentration: Improvements to the demonstrator

Volker Zagolla, Eric Tremblay, and Christophe Moser

Optics for Solar Energy 2014

Canberra Australia
2–5 December 2014
ISBN: 978-1-55752-756-1

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V. Zagolla, E. Tremblay, and C. Moser, "Self-tracking solar concentration: Improvements to the demonstrator," in Light, Energy and the Environment, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2014), paper RF4B.2.

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Abstract

Solar concentration requires tracking to function effectively by following the sun’s position. The proposed self-tracking system greatly reduces the constraints on tracking. We built a demonstration device and report on the results and improvements.

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