Abstract: A hybrid solar system including a hybrid solar collector using non-imaging optics and photovoltaic components and a heat transfer and storage system in thermal communication with the hybrid solar collector, the heat transfer and storage system using particle laden gas as thermal media to simultaneously generate and store electricity and high temperature dispatchable heat.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 30, 2018
Publication date:
December 13, 2018
Applicants:
GAS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE, THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ON BEHALF OF ITS MERCED CAMPUS, HYBRID SOLAR SYSTEM
Inventors:
David CYGAN, Hamid ABBASI, Aleksandr KOZLOV, Roland WINSTON, Eli YABLONOVITCH