[TRNSYS-users] Query about Type 50f

[SANJEEV JAKHAR <sanjeev.jakhar@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in>]

Dear sir,

I am using PV- Thermal collector / concentrating collectors (Type 50f) for the hybrid (electrical energy and thermal energy) simulation.

Within the Type 50f one of the parameter (no.3) is ratio of aperture area to absorber area. I am wondering whether this is same as concentration ratio (CR). However, If so, the range given is 0 to1.

Please guide me how is possible to have CR less than one. If I use the value more than one it is not accepting and processing.

Please help me for this doubt.

Thanks & Regards,

Sanjeev Jakhar
Research Scholar
Center for Renewable Energy and Environment Development (CREED)
Mechanical Engineering Department

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Rajasthan - 333031