Helioconcentrator (from helio ... and Lat. Con - “with, together”, Lat. Centrum - “center, focus”) - a device for the concentration of the radiant energy of the Sun; increases 100-10,000 times the energy density of solar radiation. The main part of the helioconcentrator is one or more mirrors or lenses that collect (focus) the sun's rays.
Helioconcentrators have long been known (TSB mentions devices created by Archimedes , T.P. Buffon [ specify ] , A. L. Lavoisier ). In the USSR, the first large helioconcentrator in the form of a paraboloid with a diameter of 10 m was created in 1946 in Tashkent . Similar paraboloid helioconcentrators were built in France, the USA and Japan. In France, for example, in 1968, the largest solar furnace with a paraboloid solar concentrator with a diameter of 54 m began to operate.
See also
- Solar installation
- Heliostat
- solar collector
- Solar architecture
Literature
- Solar concentrator // Kazakhstan. National Encyclopedia . - Almaty: Kazakh encyclopedias , 2005. - T. II. - ISBN 9965-9746-3-2 .
- Helioconcentrator - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
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