Ray Tracing Modelling of Reflector for Vertical Bifacial Panel
Michael Jakobsen, Sune Thorsteinsson, Peter Behrensdorff Poulsen, Peter Melchior Rødder, Kristin Rødder · 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition · 2016
Bifacial solar panels have recently become a new attractive building block for PV systems. In this work we propose a reflector system for a vertical bifacial panel, and use ray tracing modelling to model the performance. Particularly, we investigate the impact of the reflector volume being filled with a refractive medium, and shows the refractive medium improves the reflector performance since it directs almost all the light incident on the incoming plane into the PV panel.