Point and Line Focusing Receiver

Technologies

Laltu Chandra
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
chandra@iitj.ac.in
Concentrated solar thermal technologies
Line Focusing (Flux concentration: up to 100 suns)
 Parabolic Trough Concentrator based
 Linear Fresnel Reflector based

Point Focusing (Flux concentration: 1000 or more suns)

 Dish concentrator based
 Heliostat based

 1 sun = 1kW/m2
 Higher flux concentration  higher temperature
Line Focusing Technologies

Parabolic trough
(Direct solar steam Technology, PSA Spain
 Receiver tube and support

Diameter of absorber tube = 70mm

Diameter of receiver tube = 115 mm
Length of absorber tube between support brackets = 4m
Overall length could be 1000s of meters
Linear Fresnel Reflector
Linear Cavity Receiver

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 Reflector Unit
Type Elastically curved glass mirror
3 mm thick Solar grade low iron glass – mirror from Saint-
Reflector material Gobain Glass, Germany
Specular 92.5% (In 3º Cone)
Reflectivity
Global reflectivity 93.5 % in standard conditions, measured to ISO 9050, AM
1.5
Quantity 8 nos
Point Focusing Technologies

Dish concentrator

Heliostat based
central solar tower
PS10 (DSG) 
 Tubular and Volumetric Receiver

Principle of volumetric air receiver [Hoffschmidt et al. (2003)]

Types of Volumetric Receivers :

a) Closed volumetric receiver

b) Open volumetric receiver
Closed and open volumetric air receivers

Closed air receiver

Open air receiver

 Acknowledgements

All the sources of the presented

materials are hereby duly
acknowledged.