Name
Jehangir Dar
Amity School of Applied Sciences, Amity University Haryana, Gurugram, Haryana, India.
Journal
Abstract
A new architecture to beam down solar light and distribute it to different regions for the terrestrial use on the host heavenly body is presented. The architecture consist Solar Concentration and Transmission Sub-system placed in geostationary orbit to concentrate the solar light using individually pointable thin optical elements, then using Secondary Solar Reflector to deflect the produced strong intense beam to the Solar Transmission Sub-system that consists the two parallel thin Fresnel lens. The Solar Transmission Sub-system, after producing the strong convergent beam beams down it to the receiver located at the host body. The receiver is again a Fresnel lens that produces the parallel beam and transmits it to the Beam Splitter which splits the beam to a number of narrow beams and with the help of Beam Transmission and Diffuser System directs to different regions and gets diffused for the terrestrial use. A detailed mass budget of the space-oriented part Solar Concentration and Transmission Sub-system is defined. The description of the different elements of the architecture is pointed out and an end-to-end efficiency analysis is performed.