Design analysis of solar parabolic trough thermal collectors. (February 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hafez, A.Z.; Attia, A.M.; Eltwab, H.S.; ElKousy, A.O.; Afifi, A.A.; AbdElhamid, A.G.; AbdElqader, A.N.; Fateen, S-E.K.; El-Metwally, K.A.; Soliman, A.; Ismail, I.M.
• Is Part Of: Renewable & sustainable energy reviews. Volume 82:Part 1(2018)
• Page Start: 1215
• Page End: 1260
• Publication Date: 2018-02
• Subjects: APDR Alternative Porous Disc Receiver -- BPDR Bottom Porous Disc Receiver -- CCHP Combined Cooling, Heat and Power -- CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics -- CHP Micro combined heat and power -- CPVT Concentrating Photovoltaic-Thermal -- CSP Concentrating Solar Power -- CTM Camera Target Method -- CTP Concentrating Trough parabolic -- DISS Direct Solar Steam -- DNI Direct Normal Irradiance -- DSG Direct Steam Generation -- FEM Finite Element Method -- FVM Finite Volume Method -- HTF Heat Transfer Fluid -- IBPDR Inclined Bottom Porous Disc Receiver -- LBM Lattice Boltzmann Method -- LES Large Eddy Simulation -- LSSVM Least Squares Support Vector Machines -- MCRT Monte Carlo Ray Trace -- PARASCAN PARAbolic Trough Flux SCANner -- PI A Proportional Integral -- PSO Particle Swarm Optimization -- PSO–MCRT Particle Swarm Optimization-Monte Carlo Ray Tracing -- PSO-NMS Particle Swarm Optimization-Nelder-Mead Simplex -- PTPP Parabolic Trough Power Plants -- PTC Parabolic Trough Collector -- PTRs Parabolic Trough Receiver -- PTSC Parabolic Trough Solar Collector -- PV Photovoltaic -- SG Steam Generation -- SPT Solar Parabolic Trough -- SPTS Solar Parabolic Trough Systems -- SPTC Solar Parabolic Trough Collector -- SPTTS Solar Parabolic Trough Thermal Storage -- SRT Sensor-based Random Tree -- TCPTC Temperature-controlled parabolic trough collector -- TDMA Tri-Diagonal Matrix Algorithm -- TPTC Transparent Parabolic Through Collector; Solar energy -- Parabolic trough -- Design -- Factors -- Simulation -- Power plants; Renewable energy sources -- Periodicals; Power resources -- Periodicals; Énergies renouvelables -- Périodiques; Ressources énergétiques -- Périodiques; 333.794
• DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2017.09.010
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1364-0321

Abstract

Abstract: This paper presents a review of the design parameters, mathematical techniques and simulations used in the design of parabolic trough solar systems, along with a review on their applications. Recent studies that analyze the deployment of solar parabolic trough collectors (SPTC) in different countries and the operational SPTC plants are also presented and discussed. The paper also discusses the different kinds of software and test methods of solar collectors developed since 1981 which can be distinguished by their particular mathematical models or tracking techniques. In particular, since the mathematical models are especially required for the design, analysis, testing and validation of the systems results as they provide an approximation of the dynamic behavior of the physical properties of the system, they are discussed in depth. The mathematical models allow the calculation of different parameters of the solar parabolic trough system, the angle of inclination of the collecting surface and the forces acting on the system. The validity and experimental validation of the major mathematical models on practical solar parabolic trough concentrators, receivers and other components of different dimension are also reviewed. The paper showed the optical efficiency values are close to 63% and the theoretical peak optical efficiency reached 75%.