New computational code for two tracking methods to analyze shadowing and blocking efficiencies of heliostat field

Kok-Keong Chong; Ming-Hui Tan

doi:10.1364/OSE.2014.RTh3B.3

Light, Energy and the Environment
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2014),
paper RTh3B.3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OSE.2014.RTh3B.3

New computational code for two tracking methods to analyze shadowing and blocking efficiencies of heliostat field

Kok-Keong Chong and Ming-Hui Tan

Optics for Solar Energy 2014

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

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K. Chong and M. Tan, "New computational code for two tracking methods to analyze shadowing and blocking efficiencies of heliostat field," in Light, Energy and the Environment, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2014), paper RTh3B.3.

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Abstract

New algorithm was developed to perform computation of annual performance including shadowing and blocking efficiencies in a heliostat field for a comparison between two different sun-tracking methods: Azimuth-Elevation and Spinning-Elevation.

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