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Novel Fractal-textured Solar Absorber Surfaces for Concentrated Solar Power

Karunesh Kant
Sibin K. Purayil
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R. Pitchumani
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The solar selectivity of a thermal receiver surface significantly affects the photothermal conversion efficiency of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. The development of low-cost Gen3 CSP systems calls for increasing the solar absorptance of the thermal receivers at operating temperatures above 750 C. This study presents an innovative approach to the fractal, multiscale texturing of absorber surfaces to significantly enhance solar energy absorption for Gen3 CSP applications. The absorber surface is described in terms of its fractal parameters that are uniquely determined from surface profile measurements. The interaction of solar radiation with the fractal surface is numerically simulated by solving the governing Maxwell’s equations for electromagnetic wave propagation to investigate the effect of texturing on the absorptance of the surfaces. It is shown that absorption of the solar spectrum increases with an increase in the fractal dimension and the multiscale asperity height of the surface texturing. The theoretical model is demonstrated to be in close agreement with experimental measurements of spectral absorptance of electrodeposited copper (Cu), copper mono-oxide (CuO), and copper-manganese oxide (CuMnO) surfaces that are textured to produce a range of fractal parameters by tailoring the deposition parameters. Fractal surface texturing is shown to reduce reflectance by over one order of magnitude, yielding an absorptance of greater than 0.985 for CuMnO. For the first time, the study presents a significant effective means of increasing solar absorptance and a fundamental theoretical description of the underlying physics.
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hal-03774621 , version 1 (11-09-2022)

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Karunesh Kant, Sibin K. Purayil, R. Pitchumani. Novel Fractal-textured Solar Absorber Surfaces for Concentrated Solar Power. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2022, 248, pp.112010. ⟨10.1016/j.solmat.2022.112010⟩. ⟨hal-03774621⟩
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