Utilization of cassegrain feed parabolic antenna design in increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic module

This paper presents the design of a transportable solar concentrating and tracking parabolic trough reflector that gathers higher energy yield in its photovoltaic (PV) module using the concept of the Cassegrain antenna system wherein the sun's rays are dashed to the structure's primary and secondary reflector before they are converged to the polycrystalline solar panel located at the trough's focus. Based from the system evaluation, the power output gathered from the whole system is 36.05% and 9.05% more effective than the static and sun-tracking solar panel, respectively. Likewise, the project yielded a solar panel efficiency of 12.94% which is 4.67% and 1.17% greater than the ones produced by the static and sun-tracking PV cell, correspondingly. Moreover, it has been calculated that the whole system charges 2 hours and 16.81 minutes faster than the static PV cell's battery, and 24.15 minutes quicker than the sun-tracking solar panel's battery.