< Plan for my reflector experiment >
Looking around the internet, there weren’t any parabolic or spherical reflectors that was for experimental usage. Most of them were generally enormous, usually for setting it up on the rooftop for collecting sunlight. I could only find plane reflectors and solar dishes. So I plan to set up a experiment using the plane reflectors like the sketch below, to see the effect of plane reflectors. I am going to compare when solar panel without reflectors and with reflectors to see how big of a difference it makes and to understand more about the reflector’s role in concentrating the light on to the collector.
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< Research on solar energy reflectors >
Solar concentrator (solar dish) = example of parabolic reflector A parabolic solar concentrator tracks the sun throughout the day using dual axis tracker. Sun’s solar energy shines onto the collector, which has highly reflective surface and reflects concentrated solar power on to a receiver at magnification of 1000X. The solar concentrator focuses the light to the CPV Dense Array Molecule, which consists of multijunction solar cells. These converts concentrated solar power to electricity. The high amount of electricity is generated by the highly reflective and concentrative parabolic reflector with high efficiency. |
Irene Jeong's signature project:Conducting various experiments using school's solar panel to find out the optimum environment for maximum efficiency of photovoltaic cells Archives
May 2017
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