Currently, because of the availability of the required resources and the awareness to implement a clean and healthy environment, solar power energy system has a strong potential. In this work, a novel solar concentrating system with two concentrators that reflect the radiation twice instead of one time was proposed.
Through this thesis study, a search was conducted to analyze if the solar concentrated systems were efficiently applied and this efficiency is reached. A study for the amount of radiation within the country was performed along with a simulation of the system and find the optimum orientation of the secondary concentrators. The amount of the radiation was calculated.
The data were studied through different scripts and a simulation of Reif’s solar system was implemented through COMSOL software. The data which were studied is the radiation of the country Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, especially Jeddah city, to check the potential of this location for applying such a solar system to convert its results into a suitable and usable energy.
Reif system show and proof that his idea could generate an amount of energy which could be converted to an energy to cover the need of the electricity, or part of the required.
As a future recommendation, this study could be used to implement project for this system, study the required customer requirements, and to use such a project in the future to be officially one of the usable projects.
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