期刊
SOLAR ENERGY
卷 202, 期 -, 页码 1-9出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2020.03.066
关键词
Photovoltaics; Concentrating; Solar; Retrofit
资金
- U.S. Department of Energy ARPA-E FOCUS program [DE-AR0000729]
Conversion of sunlight into electricity is the fastest growing commercial means of deploying renewable energy at utility scale. The two primary methods for conversion are photovoltaics and concentrating solar thermal power. The complimentary advantages of these two methods motivates interest in hybridizing the two. Here, a spectral beam splitting approach is designed and tested for application as a retrofit in existing parabolic trough concentrating solar power facilities, the first large scale test using such an approach with low-cost silicon photovoltaic cells. Such an approach leverages the existing capital cost of the plant with the potential to boost plant output. The novel on-sun testing here focused on the electrical performance of a silicon photovoltaic module integrated into the most common parabolic trough geometry with a net aperture area of 1.7 m(2). The spectral beam splitter has a solar weighted reflectance of 71.2%, and delivered an average flux to the cells of 17,828 W/m(2) representing a concentration ratio of 25x, within 10% of the prediction of the optical ray tracing model. The two photovoltaic modules achieved an average efficiency - based upon measured irradiance delivered to the cells - of 12.4% (or 3% if normalized to the total aperture of the area of the mirror). A corresponding decrease in thermal performance was observed when the retrofit was added. Overall the design is capable of providing a path to retrofit existing parabolic trough powerplants to provide a 13% increase in power output using commercially available photovoltaic technology.
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