Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Photoelectric – Panel or array
Patent
1996-04-26
1998-12-22
Nguyen, Nam
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Photoelectric
Panel or array
136246, 126578, 126593, 126600, 126621, 126623, 126686, 2502035, H01L 31052
Patent
active
058513094
ABSTRACT:
A directing and concentrating solar energy collector with a concentrating reflector and one or more cooperating directing reflectors concentrates solar radiation to a substantially narrow and straight line of concentration. The directing reflectors, being perpendicular to the concentrating reflector, confine the zones of concentration at the line of concentration. A stationary optimizing energy converter having multiple energy conversion sections receives the concentrated radiation, converts part of it to electricity, with another part to thermal energy. A building includes multiple collectors in an energy collection system, with one variation of the collectors used under a transparent roof and another inside a transparent wall. The concentrating reflector is provided either with single axis tracking, or with no tracking at all, enabling different installations and having different advantages. For the tracking versions, a radiation scanner digitally measures and computes the most optimal angular tracking position for accurate adjustment of the concentrating reflectors, yielding the highest available energy level. Software in a micro processor controls the collection system and the conversion sections, independently from each other, optimizing the energy collection process. The software also reads radiation energy levels from the radiation sensors of the scanner, at regular angular intervals of the rotation of the rod, and computes the most optimal angular tracking adjustment for positioning of the concentrating reflectors of all collectors.
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