A review of the compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) with a tubular absorber

Chuan Jiang; Lei Yu; Song Yang; Keke Li; Jun Wang; Peter D. Lund; Yaoming Zhang

doi:10.3390/en13030695

A review of the compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) with a tubular absorber

Chuan Jiang, Lei Yu^*, Song Yang, Keke Li, Jun Wang, Peter D. Lund, Yaoming Zhang

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Abstract

The compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) is a highly interesting solar collector technology for different low-concentration applications due to no tracking requirement. The CPC with a tubular absorber is the most common type of CPC. Here, a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of this CPC type is presented, including design features, structure, applications, etc. Key design guidelines, structural improvements, and recent developments are also presented.

Original language	English
Article number	695
Number of pages	31
Journal	Energies
Volume	13
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/en13030695
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2020
MoE publication type	A2 Review article, Literature review, Systematic review

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This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, grant number No. 51736006.

Keywords

Compound parabolic concentrator
Low-concentrator collector
Non-imaging optics
Tubular absorber

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