Title
Ultraviolet Concentration Factor of a Truncated Compound Parabolic Concentrator under Different Weather Conditions
Date Issued
01 March 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Pleiades Publishing
Abstract
Abstract—: This study presents the results of ultraviolet radiation measurement in a truncated compound parabolic concentrator. The measurements were performed by using of a portable ultraviolet sensor both inside and outside the concentrator without the presence of receiver, under direct and diffuse solar radiation, to calculate the real value of the concentration factor of ultraviolet radiation. The truncated compound parabolic concentrator was designed in Solid Works and built via 3D printing, with a theoretical concentration factor of 4.6. This study showed the differences in the form of the ultraviolet radiation when measurements were made under direct radiation and diffuse solar radiation. These differences are important when measurements were made along the concentrator profile, at different heights within the concentrator and, also, along it. Finally, a concentration factor of 3.3 and 1.4 were calculated on a sunny and a cloudy days, respectively. These values correspond to a concentration efficiency of 71.7 and 31.3%, respectively, against the theoretical value of 4.6 proposed in the design.
Start page
99
End page
106
Volume
56
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería ambiental
Ingeniería del Petróleo, (combustibles, aceites), Energía, Combustibles
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85086584656
Source
Applied Solar Energy (English translation of Geliotekhnika)
Resource of which it is part
Applied Solar Energy (English translation of Geliotekhnika)
ISSN of the container
0003701X
Source funding
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico, Tecnológico y de Innovación Tecnológica
Sponsor(s)
Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico, Tecnológico e Innovación Tecnológica
Gobierno peruano
Universidad de Lima
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus