Nonimaging Fresnel Lenses
Subtitle: Design and Performance of Solar Concentrators
By: by Ralf Leutz, Akio Suzuki
Contributors: Suzuki, Akio
Series: Springer Series in OPTICAL SCIENCES -- 83; Springer series in optical sciences -- 83.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9783642075315; 9783540452904
Subjects: Physics; Machinery
Description: This book offers a detailed and comprehensive account of the engineering of the world's first nonimaging Fresnel lens solar concentrator. The book closes a gap in solar concentrator design, and describes nonimaging refractive optics and its numerical mathematics . The contents follow a systems approach that is absent in standard handbooks of optics or solar energy. The reader is introduced to the principles, theories, and advantages of nonimaging optics from the standpoint of concentrating sunlight (the solar concentrator idea). The book shows the reader how to find his or her own optical solution using the rules and methodologies covering the design and the assessment of the nonimaging lens. This novel solar concentrator is developed within the natural constraints presented by the sun and in relation to competitive solutions offered by other concentrators.
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Table of contents: title: Executive Summary; title: Lenses and Mirrors for Solar Energy; title: Nonimaging Optics; title: Fresnel Lens Optics; title: Earlier Fresnel Lenses; title: Nonimaging Fresnel Lens Design; title: Lens Evaluation; title: Optimization of Stationary Concentrators; title: Prototype Design, Manufacturing and Testing; title: Concentrated Sunlight and Photovoltaic Conversion; title: Solar Thermal Concentrator Systems; title: Solar Concentration in Space.