Abstract
It is necessary to increase the efficiency of existing solar power plants both through the study of energy processes and the creation of new schematic diagrams of solar systems by reducing the cost of their design, principle of operation and operation. Authors have developed the LUCH solar plant in solving these problems. The article presents the device of the installation, a mathematical description of the shape of the solar concentrator, calculations of the parameters of the cones and their layout diagram. When developing the concentrator, the condition was accepted — the adopted form of the paraboloid as the basis of the concentrator needs to be changed so as to simplify the design and manufacturing process. The design change was made by splitting the paraboloid of revolution into separate cones. The calculated geometrical parameters of the LUCH solar concentrator are compared with the obtained parameters for an ideal paraboloid concentrator.
Highlights
The growing demand for energy — electricity and heat — forces, despite many years of large-scale research, development and application, to look for further ways to develop solar plants
The solar plant design consists of five main parts (Figure 1): 1. Optical system; 2
The solar plant is mounted on a metal base
Summary
The growing demand for energy — electricity and heat — forces, despite many years of large-scale research, development and application, to look for further ways to develop solar plants. To increase the efficiency of existing solar power plants complex designs and expensive materials are used which increases the payback period of solar power plants. The long history of the development of energy-saving equipment in Europe has allowed accumulating significant experience in this area. It is possible find in the literature a lot of data on the successful implementation of projects of energy efficient systems using renewable energy sources in particular solar using concentrators [1,2,3,4,5]
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