Ray Tracing Study of Optical Characteristics of the Solar Image in the Receiver for a Thermal Solar Parabolic Dish Collector

Table 2

Design parameters of solar parabolic concentrator.

Parameters	Numerical value	Unit
Aperture radius	0.2	[m]
Radius of smaller hole	1.9	[m]
Gross collector area	11.82	[m^2]
The cross section of the opening parabola	9.89	[m^2]
A sheltered area of the concentrator	0.126	[m^2]
The effective area of the concentrator	9.764	[m^2]
Receiver diameter	0.40	[m]
Shape of receiver	Directly irradiated corrugated spiral thermal absorber pipe	—
Depth of the concentrator	0.399	[m]
Focal length	2.26	[m]
	6	[°]
	45.6	[°]