Journal
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages 246-261Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.12.031
Keywords
Solar concentrator; Daylighting system; Uniform illumination; Optical fiber
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Daylighting is essential for improving indoor environments and reducing electric lighting power consumption in office buildings. Traditional, fiber-based daylighting systems were implemented only on a small scale. To this end, two efficient approaches are presented. The first approach consists of a parabolic trough and the second approach contains a linear Fresnel lens. Sunlight is captured through the concentrator and distributed through the optical fibers. Since it is difficult to achieve a high concentration, a trough compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) is used to pass the maximum captured collimated sunlight into the optical fibers in both approaches. Optical-simulation results have shown that the efficiency achieved in the implemented daylighting systems which is estimated based on the average illuminance in the interior and on the illumination quality of the system through combining daylight and light-emitting diode (LED) light is better than that of traditional lighting systems. (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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