Research Article
Ray Tracing Study of Optical Characteristics of the Solar Image in the Receiver for a Thermal Solar Parabolic Dish Collector
Table 2
Design parameters of solar parabolic concentrator.
| Parameters | Numerical value | Unit |
| Aperture radius | 0.2 | [m] | Radius of smaller hole | 1.9 | [m] | Gross collector area | 11.82 | [m2] | The cross section of the opening parabola | 9.89 | [m2] | A sheltered area of the concentrator | 0.126 | [m2] | The effective area of the concentrator | 9.764 | [m2] | Receiver diameter | 0.40 | [m] | Shape of receiver | Directly irradiated corrugated spiral thermal absorber pipe | — | Depth of the concentrator | 0.399 | [m] | Focal length | 2.26 | [m] | | 6 | [°] | | 45.6 | [°] |
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