Abstract
One of the aims of solar-thermal engineering is to develop ‘medium temperature collectors’ in the range of 70–250 °C that are suitable for applications such as cleaning, drying, evaporation, distillation, pasteurization, sterilization and cooking, as well as applications with low-temperature heat demand and high consumption rates (domestic hot water, space heating and swimming pool heating), and heat-driven refrigeration and cooling. In this work, we present an applied research on the development of a modular linear Fresnel reflecting solar concentrator (MLFRC) for heating water and steam generation at low enthalpy in the temperature range of 70–110 °C. We present a simple mathematical method to determine the distance among the reflecting elements and the angle for each one in order to avoid shading between the elements during the period of operation. We designed a non-imaging CPC cusp-type collector with a cylindrical receiver as a secondary concentrator. We also evaluated the thermal performance of MLFRC according to the Standard ANSI/ASHRAE 93:2003.
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