UQ’s concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) array is one of only 31 in Australia; the other 30 are located in Alice Springs. Mounted on a motor driven axis, the CPV rotates almost 180 o to track the sun across the sky each day to concentrate solar energy and produce an electrical current.

The impressisve 6 x 7 metre Solar Focus, or Concentrating Array, has 560 parabolic mirror units that target and concentrate sunlight several hundred-fold onto high efficiency, triple junction solar cells. A tracking system points the array directly at the sun even when it's hidden by clouds.

2011年4月7日 · A seven-metre by six-metre 8.4 kilowatt high-efficiency, concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) array that tracks the sun has been installed on Sir Fred Schonell Drive, adjacent to UQ's multi-storey...

2011年7月14日 · Separate to the rooftop panels, UQ has installed a ground-mounted, seven-metre-by-six metre 8.4 kilowatt concentrating photovoltaic array (CPV) that follows the sun each day as it moves across the sky. Ingenero donated the SolFocus CPV array to allow UQ researchers to undertake detailed comparisons with a different type of solar technology.

By putting solar energy and its management at its centre of activities, UQ Solar is conducting a number of Government and industry-funded innovative projects related to:- Solar PV impact on the distribution network

The CPV tracking array is one component of UQ’s 1.22 megawatt solar generation system, which will be Australia’s largest and most powerful flat-panel solar power system on completion in July. The vast system will span four buildings at St Lucia, effectively coating the rooftops with 5000 polycrystalline silicon solar panels.

A maximum deviation of the total efficiency of the SF-CPV/T collector was calculated to be 0.67% for modelling the nanofluid as a single-phase, compared to the multiphase model. This study provides a broad view of the application of single-phase and multiphase modelling in solar participating and non-solar participating media, and additionally ...

In this work, a coupled numerical approach that combines modelling of radiation, electrical, and thermal power has been developed and applied to study the behaviour of a SF-CPV/T with SFF.

The application of concentrated photovoltaic-solar thermal (CPV/T) collectors, which are improved by spectral filter fluids (SFF) and nanotechnology, has the potential to provide both higher thermal power for heating and cooling as well as improved electrical power generation.

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