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Thermal power systems small power systems application project: Siting issues for solar thermal power plants with small community applications [PDF]

The siting issues associated with small, dispersed solar thermal power plants for utility/small community applications of less than 10 MWe are reported.
Holbeck, H. J., Ireland, S. J.
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Large-Scale Production of Heliostats

SolarPACES Conference Proceedings
Heliostats are the main cost factor of solar tower plants. To optimize them in terms of cost, it is mandatory to estimate the fabrication cost. A method to do so is presented and applied to a sample heliostat.
Daniel Lenski, Moritz Wirger, Andreas Pfahl   +2 more
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Sonnenmikroskop mit Heliostat

, 2022
Dieses Sonnenmikroskop mit Heliostat wurde in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts hergestellt und noch vor dem Jahr 1870 vom Institut für Physik der Universität Graz zum Preis von 100,- Gulden angekauft. Der Konstrukteur ist unbekannt. Sonnenmikroskope, auch als Projektionsmikroskope bezeichnet, waren eine Weiterentwicklung der Camera obscura und ...
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Co-optimisation of the heliostat field and receiver for concentrated solar power plants

Applied Energy, 2023
Shuang Wang, Charles-Alexis Asselineau, A. Fontalvo, Ye Wang, W. Logie, John Pye, J. Coventry   +6 more
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Field Deployable Mirror Soiling Detection Based on Polarimetric Imaging

SolarPACES Conference Proceedings
Heliostat mirror soiling is one of the significant factors for reduced optical efficiency of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) fields. However, it remains challenging to determine the mirror soiling patterns across the large area of the CSP field.
Md Zubair Ebne Rafique, Hossain Mansur Resalat Faruque, Ahmed Hassan, Mo Tian, Nabasindhu Das, Yu Yao   +5 more
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Optical observations of the AMPTE artificial comet and magnetotail barium releases [PDF]

The first AMPTE artificial comet was observed with a low light level television camera operated aboard the NASA CV990 flying out of Moffett Field, California.
Brown, N., Hallinan, T. J., Stenbaek-Nielsen, H.   +2 more
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Modern SCADA for CSP Systems Based on OPC UA, Wi-Fi Mesh Networks, and Open-Source Software

Energies
This study presents a methodology for the development of modern Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems aimed at improving the operation and management of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, leveraging the tools provided by industrial
Jose Antonio Carballo, Javier Bonilla, Jesús Fernández-Reche, Antonio Luis Avila-Marin, Blas Díaz   +4 more
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Making solar electricity dispatchable: A technical and economic assessment of the main conversion and storage technologies. [PDF]

iScience, 2023
Ordóñez F, Fasquelle T, Dollet A, Vossier A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Heliostat cost-analysis tool

, 1981
Estimated production costs of solar energy systems serve as guides for future component development and as measures of the potential economic viability of the technologies. The analysis of heliostat costs is particularly important since the heliostat field is the largest cost component of a solar central receiver plant.
L Brandt, R Chang
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Low-cost point-focus solar concentrator, phase 1 [PDF]

The results of the preliminary design study for the low cost point focus solar concentrator (LCPFSC) development program are presented. A summary description of the preliminary design is given.
Derbidge, T. C., Erskine, D., Maraschin, R. A., Matsushita, M. J., Nelson, E. V., Niemeyer, W. A., Overly, P. T.   +6 more
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