Realization of the solar concentrator
Dimensioning of the solar panel
Calculation of mirrors' inclination
Practical realization of the single supports
Alignment of the mirrors with one simple laser pen
Warm air engine with the Brayton cycle
Motor Brayton - constructive details and of operation
Electronic control of the direction
Electronic control of the electric motors
Symbols and features of the electronic components
Measure of the Tmax temperature caught up from the solar concentrator
Synthesis of hydrocarbons: the solutions for the safeguard of the environment are valid also in the future habitable bases on the Moon and Mars and viceversa.
The collaborators, useful links and expected programs
Important notes: the eventual realization of the solar concentrator imposes the respect of all the necessary rules of safety; in particular the place where you want to install the system needs to have barriers in order to hold the persons at a proper distance of emergency and be emptied from combustible material in order to avoid risks of fire; the focalization surface, once oriented towards the sun, must not be watched without proper glasses that strongly attenuate the brightness.
In any case the author declines every responsibility for the realization, the test and the operation of such solar concentrator.
In the image is represented a version of the solar concentratore constituted by two panels of 2x1,5 meters everyone, that can be closed by two opportune electric motors; the Brayton cycle motor is placed up, in the metallic structure composed by a light metallic sheet containing thermal insulator, preferably rock wool, that isolates also a small water tank - heat exchanger, in which water enters at ambient temperature and exits heated.
Such solar concentrator can therefore be closed automatically, in sun absence, either for aesthetic reasons or in order better to resist to the inclemencies (arranging to counter wind the section of minimal area).