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      <journal-title-group><journal-title>SET Proceedings</journal-title></journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2978-4387</issn>
      <publisher><publisher-name>Caravel Press</publisher-name></publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.65582/set.2018.140</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2018.140</article-id>
      <title-group><article-title>Design and optimisation of non-imaging concentrator for low concentrating photovoltaic thermal co-generation system</article-title></title-group>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Chandan</surname><given-names></given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Reddy</surname><given-names>K.S.</given-names></name>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Pesala</surname><given-names>Bala</given-names></name>
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      <aff id="aff1">Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Chennai</aff>
      <aff id="aff2">Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai</aff>
      <aff id="aff3">Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai</aff>
      <aff id="aff4">Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Central electronic Engineering Research Institute, Chennai</aff>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"><day>28</day><month>02</month><year>2019</year></pub-date>
      <volume>17</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <isbn publication-format="electronic">978-0-85358-327-1</isbn>
      <fpage>124</fpage>
      <lpage>129</lpage>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://caravelpress.com/proceedings/set/papers/2018.140"/>
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        <date date-type="received"><string-date>28 February 2019</string-date></date>
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      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>© 2018 Copyright WSSET</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2019</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract><p>A Concentrating Photovoltaic-Thermal (CPVT) system is an integration of solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal technologies along with a concentrator, which can simultaneously generate electrical and thermal output. Use of concentrators such as Compound Parabolic Concentrators (CPC), Linear Fresnel Reflector, Parabolic trough etc. helps in collecting more solar radiation which in-turn results in higher grade of thermal energy and more electrical output per unit area. CPC is a non-imaging solar concentrator where exact image of the source is not formed instead, there is a transfer of energy in the form of radiation from the source to the absorber. The non-tracking nature of this concentrator makes it unique from the other concentrators mentioned above thus reducing the cost and complexity of the system. The major drawback of the compound parabolic concentrator is the formation of nonuniform flux distribution on the absorber which can be minimized by the use of optimised homogenizer. In this work, optimised homogenizer design has been carried out for 2X, 2.5X and 3X CPC each truncated to 1.7X. The simulation results show that the optimised homogenizer significantly reduces the non-uniform illumination on the PVT absorber. In addition, simulations show that considering material requirement and acceptance angle, 2.5X CPC truncated to 1.7X is optimum design.</p></abstract>
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        <kwd>Cogeneration</kwd>
        <kwd>Compound Parabolic Concentrator</kwd>
        <kwd>Homogeniser</kwd>
        <kwd>Photovoltaic-Thermal</kwd>
        <kwd>Solar Energy</kwd>
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      <conference>
        <conf-date>21 to 23 August 2018</conf-date>
        <conf-name>17th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies</conf-name>
        <conf-acronym>SET2018</conf-acronym>
        <conf-num>17</conf-num>
        <conf-loc>Wuhan, China</conf-loc>
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