Solar tracking systems: Technologies and trackers drive types–A review

AZ Hafez, AM Yousef, NM Harag - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive review on solar tracking systems and their potentials
in solar energy applications. The paper overviews the design parameters, construction …

Solar tracker transcript—A review

K Kumar, L Varshney, A Ambikapathy… - … on Electrical Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Review transcript presents copious solar tracking methods to investigate their output
potential and also outline tracker type, construction, cost, and design parameter. The solar …

Design, simulation and optimization of a compound parabolic collector

E Bellos, D Korres, C Tzivanidis… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, the optical and the thermal performance of a compound parabolic collector
(CPC) with evacuated tube are presented. In the first part, the optimization of the reflector …

Direct tracking error characterization on a single-axis solar tracker

F Sallaberry, R Pujol-Nadal, M Larcher… - Energy Conversion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The solar trackers are devices used to orientate solar concentrating systems in order to
increase the focusing of the solar radiation on a receiver. A solar concentrator with a …

[HTML][HTML] Design development of an economic solar paraboloidal concentrator for industrial process heat generation

S Kumar, S Mahavar, A Mawire, CR Ruivo - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The design parameters, structure design and component materials of a solar dish
concentrator system extensively affect its performance, operation, cost and maintenance …

Institutional cooking with solar energy: A review

S Indora, TC Kandpal - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
A review on various aspects of institutional solar cooking is presented. Starting with an
overview of energy requirement for cooking, the review includes cooking technologies …

Institutional and community solar cooking in India using SK-23 and Scheffler solar cookers: A financial appraisal

S Indora, TC Kandpal - Renewable energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Financial appraisal of two solar cookers (SK-23 and Scheffler dish) that may be used for
institutional/community cooking is presented. For each solar cooker type, three different …

Investigation on the optical design and performance of a single-axis-tracking solar parabolic trough collector with a secondary reflector

C Subramaniyan, J Subramani, B Kalidasan… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The design of solar concentrating collectors for the effective utilization of solar energy is a
challenging condition due to tracking errors leading to different divergences of the solar …

Performance analysis of a novel sun-tracking CPC heat pipe evacuated tubular collector

Y Wang, Y Zhu, H Chen, X Zhang, L Yang… - Applied Thermal …, 2015 - Elsevier
A tracking compound parabolic concentrating (TCPC) solar collector with concentration ratio
of 2.3, which combine the CPC, heat pipe evacuated tubular receiver and crank rod …

Optical performance investigation on flat receiver for parabolic trough solar collector based on the MCRT method

Y Hou, X Yu, B Yang, S Liu, Y Qi - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Parabolic trough solar collector (PTC) system with a flat receiver is widely used in
concentrating photovoltaic/thermal (CPV/T) systems, where the flat receiver and PTC are the …