WO2016132384A1 - Réseau de micro-concentrateurs modulaire basé sur un système de suivi solaire multidirectionnel pour la récupération d'énergie photovoltaïque et thermique - Google Patents

Réseau de micro-concentrateurs modulaire basé sur un système de suivi solaire multidirectionnel pour la récupération d'énergie photovoltaïque et thermique Download PDF

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WO2016132384A1
WO2016132384A1 PCT/IN2016/050058 IN2016050058W WO2016132384A1 WO 2016132384 A1 WO2016132384 A1 WO 2016132384A1 IN 2016050058 W IN2016050058 W IN 2016050058W WO 2016132384 A1 WO2016132384 A1 WO 2016132384A1
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Satishchandra Balkrishna Ogale
Tejas KSHATRIYA
Ravi PANDIT
Sarika KELKAR
Gaurav CHANDRATRE
Onkar GAME
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02S—GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRARED RADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, e.g. USING PHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES
    • H02S40/00—Components or accessories in combination with PV modules, not provided for in groups H02S10/00 - H02S30/00
    • H02S40/20—Optical components
    • H02S40/22—Light-reflecting or light-concentrating means
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
    • F24S30/00—Arrangements for moving or orienting solar heat collector modules
    • F24S30/40—Arrangements for moving or orienting solar heat collector modules for rotary movement
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02S—GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRARED RADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, e.g. USING PHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES
    • H02S20/00—Supporting structures for PV modules
    • H02S20/30—Supporting structures being movable or adjustable, e.g. for angle adjustment
    • H02S20/32—Supporting structures being movable or adjustable, e.g. for angle adjustment specially adapted for solar tracking
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02S—GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRARED RADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, e.g. USING PHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES
    • H02S40/00—Components or accessories in combination with PV modules, not provided for in groups H02S10/00 - H02S30/00
    • H02S40/40—Thermal components
    • H02S40/42—Cooling means
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02S—GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRARED RADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, e.g. USING PHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES
    • H02S40/00—Components or accessories in combination with PV modules, not provided for in groups H02S10/00 - H02S30/00
    • H02S40/40—Thermal components
    • H02S40/44—Means to utilise heat energy, e.g. hybrid systems producing warm water and electricity at the same time
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
    • F24S23/00—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors
    • F24S23/70—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors with reflectors
    • F24S2023/85—Micro-reflectors
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
    • Y02E10/40—Solar thermal energy, e.g. solar towers
    • Y02E10/47—Mountings or tracking
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
    • Y02E10/50—Photovoltaic [PV] energy
    • Y02E10/52—PV systems with concentrators
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
    • Y02E10/60—Thermal-PV hybrids

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  • the invention relates to mono or multi-dimensional, micro-concentrator array based multi-directional sun tracking system for economical, modular and convenient multidirectional solar energy harvesting.
  • the currently available solar systems have serious issues such as cost (payback period), flexibility, space availability and convenience in terms of installation and maintenance especially when they have to be implemented on a larger scale.
  • the currently available architectures are also clumsy, space (both ground and areal) consuming and expensive. Moreover, they do not represent optimized solutions covering all the necessary variables.
  • US20050022858 discloses compact photovoltaic module comprising plurality of radiation reflectors and plurality of photovoltaic cells with each cell having a corresponding reflector for directing radiation to the cell.
  • the reflectors have an asymmetric portion of a parabolic or similarly shaped surface and are arranged serially. Each cell is shielded from direct radiation by an adjacent reflector and with the corresponding reflector directing off-axis radiation to the cell.
  • the reflectors are coated with reflective coating such as aluminum, silver.
  • WO2009099571 discloses a system and method of arranging multiple flat reflective facets around solar cells within a solar panel. Additionally, the system may have reflective facets around a standard solar panel.
  • the system comprises an enclosure comprising four sides, a transparent cover that protects interior surfaces from the elements, rectangular solar cell mounted parallel to and below the transparent cover, flat reflective facets surrounding said solar cell, with each said reflective facet located adjacent to one side of said solar cell, and mounted at an obtuse angle relative to the surface of said solar cell, such that said reflective facets extend upward toward said transparent cover.
  • a solar cell system comprises a solar cell comprising a grid and a photo- sensitive area, wherein the grid includes conductors, and an optical micro-structure positioned between the conductors.
  • the micro-structure covers at least a portion of the conductors.
  • the optical micro -structure comprises of an inner face optically coupled to the photo-sensitive area; and an outer face configured to receive light.
  • a macro-concentrator is configured to concentrate light onto the solar cell.
  • US20130160818 discloses a solar cell system comprising a substrate comprising a plurality of grooves spaced from each other; a plurality of solar cells, each of the plurality of solar cells being inside each of the plurality of grooves; plurality of reflectors each of being present between each of the plurality of solar cells and the inside of each of the plurality of grooves.
  • Main object of the present invention is to develop modular micro-concentrator array based multi-directional sun tracking system for photovoltaic and thermal energy harvesting.
  • present invention provides a solar cell system for multi-directional solar energy (photovoltaic and/or thermal) harvesting comprising rotatable array of micro- concentrator units wherein said micro-concentrator unit comprising a plurality of rectangular solar cells (103) attached on at least one tubing (112) and mounted with a plurality of parabolic micro -concentrators (104) for each micro-concentrator unit of said cell unit to maximise generation of energy.
  • rotatable array of micro-concentrator units are mono dimensional or multi-dimensional.
  • multi-dimensional arrays of micro- concentrator units are placed oppositely facing away from each other.
  • multi-dimensional arrays of micro-concentrator units are optionally placed oppositely facing away from each other and are in a ladder arrangement. In yet another embodiment of the present invention, multi-dimensional arrays of micro-concentrator units are optionally placed submerging below each other.
  • said solar cells (103) being attached to said tubing (112) by a heat conducting material to maintain cooling of solar cells.
  • a light collector (109) and parabolic trough (110) is affixed to said tubing (112) and extending over a length of said array of micro-concentrator units.
  • said parabolic micro- concentrators have flat, curved or parabolic surfaces.
  • micro-concentrators are constructed from a material selected from aluminised PET, metals, metal alloys, glass with anti-reflective coating, polymeric and ceramic.
  • a cooling medium is circulated through said tubing (112) to take the heat of the solar cells.
  • Figure 1 show the basic concentrator unit- isometric view (covered with a glass cover coated with anti-reflection coating).
  • Figure 2 depicts the basic concentrator unit- top view (covered with a glass cover coated with anti-reflection coating).
  • Figure 3 shows basic concentrator unit- side view (covered with a glass cover coated with anti-reflection coating).
  • Figure 4 shows the array of micro -concentrators.
  • Figure 5 depicts the Back-to-back assembly of concentrators with surrounding reflectors.
  • Figure 6 shows the isometric view of back-to-back assembly of concentrators with surrounding reflectors.
  • Figure 7 depicts the micro-concentrator array with two side parabolic trough.
  • Figure 8 shows the isometric view of micro -concentrator array with two side parabolic trough.
  • Figure 9 shows the three arrays of micro-concentrators with light collectors.
  • Figure 10 shows the isometric view-Three arrays of micro-concentrators with light collectors.
  • Figure 11 depicts the four arrays of micro-concentrators with light collectors.
  • Figure 12 shows the isometric view -Four arrays of micro-concentrators with light collectors.
  • Figure 13 shows the back-to-back assembly of micro -concentrators with mirrors.
  • Figure 14 depicts the isometric view of the Back-to-back assembly of micro concentrators with mirrors.
  • Figure 15 depicts ID micro-concentrator array ladder design.
  • Figure 16 shows the isometric view of ID micro-concentrator array ladder design.
  • Figure 17 depicts a two layer micro-concentrator panel design (arrangement at noon).
  • Figure 18 depicts a two layer mico -concentrator panel design; When the upper panel is tilted (9 am -11 am and after 2 pm), the floorprint is less.
  • Figure 19 depicts a two layer micro-concentrator panel design
  • Figure 20 shows isometric view of the two layer micro -concentrator panel design.
  • Figure 21 illustrates the power generated by the system of the present invention in 9 hours duration in a single day.
  • the present invention provides an efficient architectural concept for single or multi- axis solar tracking, for multidirectional solar energy harvesting, which is low cost, modular and is capable of adaptability to small as well as large scale implementation. Accordingly, the present invention discloses a solar cell system for multi-directional solar energy harvesting comprising of rotatable array of micro-concentrator units.
  • the micro-concentrator units comprises of a plurality of rectangular solar cells installed on at least one tubing and mounted with a plurality of parabolic micro-concentrators for each of the solar cell unit to maximize generation of energy.
  • the solar cells are affixed to the tubing's by a heat conducting material to maintain cooling of solar cells.
  • the parabolic surfaces of micro -concentrators may have curved surfaces.
  • a light collector or a parabolic trough which is affixed to the tubing and extending over a length of the array of micro -concentrator units.
  • the micro- concentrators are constructed from a material selected from aluminized PET, metals, metal alloys, glass with anti-reflective coating, polymeric and ceramic.
  • a cooling medium is circulated through the tubing to take the heat of the solar cells. The entire system may be rotated to trace solar movement in the sky, thereby collecting maximum sunlight continuously.
  • the invention provides an efficient solar cell system for single or multi-axis solar tracking, for multidirectional light harvesting which is low cost, modular, and is capable of adaptability to small as well as large scale implementation.
  • the invention provides solar system architecture that may be employed as a standalone solar photovoltaic system or an integrated solar photovoltaic-cum- solar thermal system.
  • the 'basic concentrator unit' has a rectangular parabolic profile, the focal point of which i.e., rectangular solar cell is situated at the bottom of this concentrator.
  • a metal sheet coated with solar selective coating in the place of the solar cell may be placed for harnessing only the thermal energy.
  • the basic unit can be used as the Photovoltaic (PV) or thermal energy harvester.
  • micro-concentrator A single unit of this concentrator may be termed as "micro-concentrator".
  • the isometric view (104) and the top view of the "micro-concentrator” (105) are depicted in figures 1 & 2 respectively.
  • the micro-concentrator has an outer surface of the concentrator (101) and the inner surface (102) with a rectangular solar cell situated at the bottom of this concentrator (103) (figures 2 & 3).
  • the concentrator ratio obtained depend upon the length of the concentrator, which may be defined as from opening aperture to closing aperture.
  • a glass with antireflection coating (101A) to cover the micro -concentrator may be used, so as to enhance the effective input on the solar cell and to protect the internal reflecting surfaces.
  • the invention provides mono-dimensional assembly consisting of plurality of micro- concentrator units (104) having a rectangular parabolic profile with a rectangular solar cell (103) situated at the bottom of the concentrator, installed on a pipe or broad tubing (112) and affixed with the help of a heat-conducting glue or paste or tape ( Figure 4) for tracking the Sun.
  • the heat conducting material may also be an industrial adhesive, specifically used for such purposes.
  • solar cell system for multi-directional solar energy harvesting comprises of multi-dimensional rotatable array of micro-concentrator units.
  • the arrays of micro-concentrator units are arranged oppositely facing away from each other.
  • the multi-dimensional system includes two dimensional (2D) or three dimensional (3D) which are based on assembly of the basic mono-dimensional array. The choice of configuration depends on cost, space management, power and efficiency considerations.
  • the invention provides Micro-concentrator array arranged oppositely facing away from each other.
  • the system may include a light collector for back- side light as depicted in figures 5 & 6.
  • the two arrays of micro -concentrators (108) having flat surface with inner side reflecting coating (109) and the parabolic surface with inner reflecting coating (110) are installed back-to-back, that is facing away from each other, on the pipe/tubing and the back side one is surrounded with a separate parabolic, light collector, wherein the concentrator unit facing the Sun (106) and another concentrator unit facing downward (107) (opposite to the Sun).
  • This light collector is to direct the light to the back-facing micro-concentrators.
  • the angle and reflectivity of the parabolic light collector determines the amount of light that can be harvested by the back-facing concentrators.
  • the back side reflector may be provided either for the individual micro -concentrator and to their assembly and, depending on the overall light harvesting efficiency, on the front as well as the back side.
  • the solar cell types that can be used on the two sides could be different.
  • the invention provides micro-concentrator array with two side parabolic trough (110), on the right and left side of the micro-concentrator array, a continuous strip of solar cells (103) is envisioned, and to direct the incident light upon the two strips, two parabolic troughs are designed ( Figures 7 & 8). This arrangement utilizes the space very optimally to generate maximum possible power.
  • three arrays of micro -concentrators with light collectors are depicted as in figures 9 & 10.
  • the invention is modified further to accommodate micro-concentrators on the two sides of the front-facing micro-concentrator array (111). It reduces the amount of solar cells that can be used in the said embodiment.
  • the incident light from the Sun is directed to the sideways of the micro-concentrators by encompassing light reflectors.
  • the three-dimensional array may be provided four arrays of micro-concentrators with light collectors, as depicted in figures 11 & 12.
  • a two side -by-side arrays of micro-concentrators facing the Sun is depicted.
  • the rest of the arrangement with the two sideways micro-concentrators is the same as depicted in figures 9 & 10.
  • the invention provides back-to-back assembly of micro-concentrators with mirrors as depicted in figure 13 & 14. This is a modified version of figures 5 & 6. In this embodiment, two back-to-back arrays of micro-concentrators are used. The light collector are replaced by two mirrors which are used to direct the light towards the back-facing micro-concentrator. As compared to design depicted in figures 5 & 6, this arrangement shall be more compact.
  • a mono-dimensional micro-concentrator array are placed on tubings that have ladder design as depicted in figures 15 & 16.
  • a two-dimensional or three-dimensional ladder arrangement of the mono-dimensional microarray tracking system is envisaged wherein, every row of micro-concentrators tracks the sun independently.
  • the whole system is stationary except at a specific time when the ladder elements may shadow each other. At this moment, one simple angular flip of the whole assembly is needed to enable the full sun view and potential of the system.
  • a two dimensional panel In micro-concentrators, a two dimensional panel is envisioned. It can be arranged in such a way that just below the panel two smaller sections of panels are installed. This makes the entire assembly as a two-layer micro-concentrator panel.
  • the upper panel During the peak hours of solar irradiation (11 am to 2 pm) the upper panel is almost horizontal, and the sub-panels are submerged below it. However during the morning (8 to 11 am) and late afternoon hours (2 to 6 pm) the upper panel is tilted to large angles. At these times, the floor print of the panel is less as compared to when it is horizontal.
  • the sub-layer panels are controllably drawn outwards so as to utilize the entire available floor area. This is depicted in figure 17 to 20.
  • a light collector or a parabolic trough which is affixed to the tubing and extending over a length of the array of micro-concentrator units.
  • the entire system may be rotated to trace solar movement in the sky, thereby collecting maximum sunlight continuously.
  • the solar cells in the micro -concentrator units may be replaced by rectangular metal sheet coated with solar selective coating for harnessing only thermal energy.
  • the solar cell system according to the present invention may be employed as a standalone solar photovoltaic system, solar thermal system, solar thermal plus thermoelectric system, or an integrated solar photovoltaic-cum- solar thermal system.
  • the solar cell system according to the invention hardly uses any ground space and can be erected in almost any geometric configuration on stationary or moving systems. It can be assembled unit-by-unit and hence has easy scalability.
  • the solar system architecture according to the invention thus combines the benefits of various solar energy harvesting schemes.
  • the instant invention is efficient, cost saving, easy to install, flexible and less space consuming. Additionally, it can be assembled unit by unit, thereby replacing the need of an existing solar panel which heavy duty.
  • the micro-concentrator by wrapping a highly reflective aluminized PET film has developed.
  • the profile of the concentrator was developed upon considering the desired 5X concentration, Silicon cell size, ease of handling and the desired size of the panel.
  • the reflective film used for making the concentrators is -95% reflective. Due to the shape and the reflectivity, this concentrator can concentrate the direct incident light by upto 5 times.
  • Solar panel has aluminium sheet as base (as against backsheet that is conventionally used in the commercial panels), and the custom sized solar cells are located considering the micro-concentrator size.
  • micro-concentrators were assembled and put on the top of the solar cells with the use of an industrial adhesive.
  • the assembled micro-concentrator based solar panels can very conveniently installed on the modular tracker. First, the panels are attached to a frame and gearbox, and then installed on a pole.
  • Fig. 21 illustrates the power generated by the system of the present invention in a duration 9 hours in a single day.
  • the maximum power is generated at 5 hours from the start of the measurement, which is a time when the sun is at zenith.
  • the solar system architecture units of the present invention can be easily assembled or mounted on terraces, rooftops, car tops, electricity pillars, ships etc.
  • the instant design for tracking solar energy does not interfere with existing architectures functionally, mechanically or aesthetically.
  • the solar system architecture of the invention is devoid of the need to fix them on any firm ground and thereby enabling the dispensation of the instant solar system architecture on waterfronts.
  • the solar system architecture of the present invention is not only cost effective (in terms of the device cost as well as architecture cost reduction) but also possess easy scalability.
  • the functional module based (Modular) integration of light harvesting architecture as presented in the instant solar system is entirely flexible for implementation in a wide variety of installation situations ranging from electricity pillars to car tops to stadia to house terraces to large fields.
  • solar system of the present invention is highly space saving in terms of the floor space as well as areal space; hence it is far more open structure enabling utilization of space for other purposes.

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La présente invention concerne des conceptions destinées à la récupération d'énergie solaire et fondées sur un réseau de micro-concentrateurs unidimensionnel ou multidimensionnel basé. Le système de cellules solaires efficace et facile à installer pour le récupération d'énergie solaire multidirectionnelle comprend une pluralité de cellules solaires rectangulaires (103) installées sur au moins un tube (112) et équipées d'une pluralité de micro-concentrateurs paraboliques (104) pour chacune de l'unité de cellule solaire afin d'optimiser la génération d'énergie. Les cellules solaires sont fixées au tube par un matériau conduisant la chaleur de façon à maintenir un refroidissement de cellules solaires. Il peut prévu un collecteur de lumière ou un creux parabolique, qui est fixé au tube et s'étendant sur une longueur du réseau d'unités de micro-concentrateur. Le système entier peut être mis en rotation pour suivre le mouvement solaire dans le ciel, permettant ainsi une récupération solaire optimale continue.
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