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Solar Cogeneration Using Holographic Concentrators for Heating and Electricity
Title: Director, Holography and Materials
Phone: (310) 320-3088
Email: sutama@poc.com
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Phone: (310) 320-3088
Email: gdrew@poc.com
Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new thin, lightweight highly efficient, rugged, low-cost film-based self-deployable solar cogeneration holographic concentrator (SCHOC) for heating water and generating electricity for use in Army field kitchens (MKTs). The SCHOC consists of two sets of flexible holographic concentrators, a mosaic of heat focusing holographic optical elements (H-HOEs) and light focusing/holographic optical elements (L-HOEs). The H-HOE, based on a reflective holographic optical element, will reflect a broadband spectrum above 800 nm. The reflected and concentrated IR energy of the solar radiation will be transferred to the heat transfer fluid inside the absorber tube, and then be transferred to the water inside the water heater until it reaches the desired temperature; at the same time it will effectively cool down the MKT. The transmitted visible light will be focused by the L-HOE onto a series of high efficiency photovoltaic cells to generate electricity. In Phase I a laboratory prototype system will be designed and developed and its performance analyzed, and the concept will be characterized by means of experimental demonstrations. When fully developed, the proposed SCHOC system will be lightweight, efficient, environmentally stable, and producible at low cost, well suited for Army field kitchen applications.
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