Thermal analysis of the designed CPC and its efficiency improvement by MPPT control

The compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) is designed and its optical thermal analysis performed in ANSYS. CPC sizing the optimal mass flow rate by maximum power point tracking (MPPT) method MATLAB are determined. radiative transfer equation solved Discrete Ordinate (DO) Mont Carlo (MC) models deduced flux divergence applied as a source term Navier-Stokes equations to model heat transfer. Results indicate that MC faster than DO with lower computational cost higher accuracy. at each time-variable solar radiation calculated from MPPT control entered inlet boundary condition for 3D CFD model. absorbed useful about 4% constant case. Reduction of convective locating evacuated tube collectors inside cavity leads 12% more 25% temperature enhancement respect MPPT-based analytical results. Then, collector has 16% gain.