How to Measure the Optical Quality of Focussing Solar Collectors without Laser Ray Tracing

doi:10.2172/900711

How to Measure the Optical Quality of Focussing Solar Collectors without Laser Ray Tracing

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Abstract

Designers and Manufacturers need a tool for evaluating the optical quality of solar concentrators. This paper describes a novel alternative to the laser ray trace technique.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/900711
State	Published - 1979

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NREL/TR-34-251

Keywords

losses
optical efficiency
optical errors
solar concentrators

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