Optical performance analysis for concentrating solar collector applying parabolic and cylindrical stationary reflector

In the present paper, the optical performance of the concentrating solar collector applying parabolic and cylindrical stationary reflector is investigated. And the tracking path of the receiver tube can be extracted at last beam solar irradiance instantaneous intersection ratios with parabolic and cylindrical stationary reflector can be worked out. To deal with these data using MATLAB, the optical performance at different solar terms in Beijing for the two types of collector be worked out. A few common problems met in work are discussed.