Solar Collector Losses Summary

Introduction

When considering the overall performance of linear slat collectors for a linear Fresnel solar concentrator system oriented in the E-W direction, several losses must be considered. For the case of a 4:1 aspect ratio array, such as a 15 foot wide array that stretches for 60 feet in the E-W direction. For this case, if we use 6" slats, we can fit about 16 slats in this area, or a total of 480 square feet of solar intercept. We have about 5 kWhr/day per square meter in Maysville, Missouri - from [1]

1. Edge Lossses for a , here are the los