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SolarPACES Conference Proceedings, 2023 Heliostats represent a major cost share of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants with central receiver. They are essential for system efficiency and strongly influence maintenance cost and service life. Since CSP facilities require direct solar radiation, suitable installation sites can eminently be found in desert regions.
Rupert Preßmair, Armin Buchroithner
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Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2020 Solar thermal system has been envisioned for utility scale applications. However, on the low end the domestic applications can be made realizable through low end automation.
Hafiz Muhammad Ashraf Hayat +4 more
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Analysis of tracking characteristics of a heliostat field using a graphical ray tracing procedure
e-Prime: Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy, 2023 The tracking requirements of all heliostats in a field are not the same, and they vary according to day, time, and latitude. In this work, a graphical ray tracing (GRT) based model is developed and demonstrated with two-axis Azimuth-Elevation (AE) and ...
Sainath A. Waghmare +1 more
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Toward Autonomous Field Inspection of CSP Collectors With a Polarimetric Imaging Drone
SolarPACES Conference Proceedings, 2023 We developed a polarimetric imaging drone to perform field inspections of heliostats and carried out field tests at Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF).
Mo Tian +9 more
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Progress in heliostat development [PDF]
Solar Energy, 2017 Abstract Strong efforts are being made to drive heliostat cost down. These efforts are summarised to give an update on heliostat technology comprising: determination of wind loads, heliostat dimensioning, solutions for the different sub-functions of a heliostat, a review of commercially available and prototype heliostat designs, canting ...
Pfahl, Andreas +9 more
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Development of an Elevation–Fresnel Linked Mini-Heliostat Array
Energies, 2020 Heliostats are critical components of solar tower technology and different strategies have been proposed to reduce their costs; among them diminishing their size to reduce wind loads or linking nearby heliostats mechanically, to reduce the overall number
Isaías Moreno-Cruz +6 more
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Heliostat Cluster Control for the Solar Tower Power Plant Based on Leader-Follower Strategy
IEEE Access, 2019 As one of the most promising power generation technologies using renewable energy sources, and the solar thermal electric power generation may be developed to alleviate the energy crisis.
Qiyue Xie +4 more
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A New Methodology for Building-Up a Robust Model for Heliostat Field Flux Characterization [PDF]
, 2017 The heliostat field of solar central receiver systems (SCRS) is formed by hundreds, even thousands, of working heliostats. Their adequate configuration and control define a currently active research line.
Berenguel Soria, Manuel +6 more
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Heliostats Daylighting System for Multi-floor Buildings
Journal of Daylighting, 2019 Daylighting has been considered as a major part of sustainable buildings for saving electric lighting and providing benefits such as, health, visual comfort, and productivity of the occupants.
Irfan
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Control of a Solar Energy Systems [PDF]
, 2012 8th IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical ProcessesThe International Federation of Automatic Control Singapore, July 10-13This work deals with the main control problems found in solar power systems and the solutions proposed in literature.
Berenguel Soria, Manuel +1 more
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