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The solar power tower Jülich – a solar thermal power plant for test and demonstration of air receiver [PDF]
The paper explains the fundamentals of the open volumetric receiver technology and shows the history of its development. It gives technical information about the system definition and the engineering of the Solar Power Tower Jülich.
Schwarzbözl, Peter +6 more
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Study on Outlet Temperature Control of External Receiver for Solar Power Tower [PDF]
Due to the change of direct normal irradiance (DNI) and the change of output power load, the receiver of the solar tower is in an unstable state in the actual operation. In this paper, a 100 MW external cylindric receiver is designed and modelled.
Jiangbo Wu +4 more
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Odqa Renewable Energy Technologies Ltd has successfully scaled its air-based rotary solar thermal receiver design from 10kW to 100kW. A 10kW-scale air-based rotary solar thermal receiver was tested in Odqa’s in-house solar simulator facility in late ...
Pok-Wang Kwan +15 more
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Closed Solar Thermal Receiver for Air at Ambient Pressure
The concept for a closed solar thermal receiver for air at ambient pressure integrates robust heat storage with solids for concentrated solar power plants.
Ulrich Hueck +2 more
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Scaling effects of a novel solar receiver for a micro gas-turbine based solar dish system [PDF]
Laboratory-scale component testing in dedicated high-flux solar simulators is a crucial step in the developmentand scale-up of concentrating solar power plants.
Garrido, Jorge +8 more
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Infrared-Reflective Coating on Fused Silica for a Solar High-Temperature Receiver [PDF]
In concentrating solar power, high-temperature solar receivers can provide heat to highly efficient cycles for electricity or chemical production. Excessive heating of the fused-silica window and the resulting recrystallization are major problems of high-
Polenzky, Christina +4 more
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Nanofluids have great potential in a wide range of fields including solar thermal applications, where molten salt nanofluids have shown great potential as a heat transfer fluid (HTF) for use in high temperature solar applications.
M. A. Karim +4 more
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Gas Flow in Hot Porous Materials: The Solar Air Receiver and Spin-Off Applications [PDF]
This article presents an overview on research results from various projects, which deal with one common problem: gas flow in hot porous materials. First, the solar air receiver, which converts concentrated solar radiation into heat in an air circuit, is ...
Reutter, Oliver +4 more
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Numerical study on influence of wind on thermal performance of a solid particle solar receiver
The effects of wind speed and wind attacking angle on the thermal performance of a solid particle solar receiver (SPSR) are studied by numerical simulation.
Zhenzhong Li +5 more
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Development of a tube receiver for a solar-hybrid microturbine system [PDF]
Solar-hybrid microturbine systems with cogeneration offer new possibilities for the generation of electricity and heat or air conditioning. The solar receiver is an important component of such a system. For a prototype system demo project a tube receiver
Amsbeck, Lars +4 more
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