A feasibility study for a new approach to designing non-tracking solar concentrators

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Title
A feasibility study for a new approach to designing non-tracking solar concentrators
CoPED ID
c662d8e9-0ca5-47f4-bae3-807818854fdd
Status
Closed
Funders
EPSRC
EPSRC
EPSRC
EPSRC
EPSRC
Value
£535,945
Start Date
Sept. 30, 2007
End Date
Sept. 30, 2008
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Solar concentrators are attractive because they can produce a higher yield of energy at a lower cost for both solar-thermal and solar-photovoltaic applications. All current designs have significant drawbacks, but we believe that we have an entirely new method for determining and designing solar concentrators optimised for any latitude or common weather conditions. Our aim is to use mathematical approaches to help design an efficient device which is cheap to manufacture and easy to integrate into a wide variety of buildings (domestic and commercial) and then to produce a prototype.

Subjects by relevance
  1. Solar energy
  2. Optimisation
  3. Manufacturing

Extracted key phrases
  1. Tracking solar concentrator
  2. Current design
  3. New approach
  4. Solar concentrator
  5. Feasibility study
  6. New method
  7. Mathematical approach
  8. High yield
  9. Common weather condition
  10. Low cost
  11. Wide variety
  12. Photovoltaic application
  13. Non

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