SOLAR PLANT Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: solar engineering; solar radiation concentrating devices. SUBSTANCE: solar plant has concentrators provided with drive, Sun tracking system with control unit, and radiation detector fixed in position; drive is designed for ensuring rectilinear and reciprocating motion; reflecting concentrator has cylindrical surface whose guide has current value of radius deviating from mean value of respective radius of circular cylinder circumference radius by maximum ±10%; radiation detector is essentially photoelectric converter disposed in focal plane. Best design of solar plant is that incorporating more than one concentrator with photoelectric converter fixed in focal plane of each of them; concentrators have common drive ensuring their plane-parallel displacement. EFFECT: simplified design of concentrator drive in Sun tracking system; enhance efficiency of solar energy utilization. 2 cl, 2 dwg