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Solar radiation attenuation in solar tower plants
Solar Energy, 2012Abstract With the advent of the first commercial solar power tower plants with a rated power in the 10–20 MW range, scale-up to larger 20–50 MW commercial plants is being considered ( Lata et al., 2010 , Herring, 2009 ) in the vast arid regions of the sunbelt.
Ballestrín, Jesús, Marzo Rosa, Aitor
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The optics of the solar tower reflector
Solar Energy, 2001Abstract The concept of the reflective solar tower is based on inverting the path of the solar rays originating from a heliostat field to a solar receiver that can be placed on the ground. This system is based on the property of a reflective quadric surface to reflect each ray oriented to one of its foci to its second focus.
Akiba Segal, Michael Epstein
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Advances in solar tower technology
WIREs Energy and Environment, 2016This article begins with a short introduction and continues with a presentation of solar tower power plants around the world. The focus is set on the developments of the last five years and in the near future of the most important components of a central receiver system (CRS).
Alexopoulos, Spiros (Prof. Dr.-Ing.) +1 more
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Solar Energy, 2003
The multi-tower solar array (MTSA) is a new concept of a point focussing two-axis tracking concentrating solar power plant. The MTSA consists of several tower-mounted receivers which stand so close to each other that the heliostat fields of the towers partly overlap.
Philipp Schramek, David R. Mills
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The multi-tower solar array (MTSA) is a new concept of a point focussing two-axis tracking concentrating solar power plant. The MTSA consists of several tower-mounted receivers which stand so close to each other that the heliostat fields of the towers partly overlap.
Philipp Schramek, David R. Mills
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Volume 1: Advances in Solar Buildings and Conservation; Climate Control and the Environment; Alternate Fuels and Infrastructure; ARPA-E; Combined Energy Cycles, CHP, CCHP, and Smart Grids; Concentrating Solar Power; Economic, Environmental, and Policy Aspects of Alternate Energy; Geothermal Energy, Harvesting, Ocean Energy and Other Emerging Technologies; Hydrogen Energy Technologies; Low/Zero Emission Power Plants and Carbon Sequestration; Micro and Nano Technology Applications and Materials, 2015
In this project, we designed a small scale model of a solar updraft tower. Our design was based upon previous renderings for solar updraft towers in Spain and Arizona. The purpose of our small scale solar updraft tower was twofold: 1) to prove the theory behind the solar updraft tower is plausible and 2) to produce enough energy to charge a battery ...
Sean Monemi, Matt Easton, Chris Freire
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In this project, we designed a small scale model of a solar updraft tower. Our design was based upon previous renderings for solar updraft towers in Spain and Arizona. The purpose of our small scale solar updraft tower was twofold: 1) to prove the theory behind the solar updraft tower is plausible and 2) to produce enough energy to charge a battery ...
Sean Monemi, Matt Easton, Chris Freire
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International Journal of Solar Energy, 1984
The solar thermal central receiver technology, known as solar power towers, is rapidly evolving to a state of near-term energy availability for electrical power generation and industrial process heat applications. The systems consist of field arrays of heliostat reflectors, a central receiver boiler, short term thermal storage devices, and either ...
FRANK KREITH, RICHARD T. MEYER
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The solar thermal central receiver technology, known as solar power towers, is rapidly evolving to a state of near-term energy availability for electrical power generation and industrial process heat applications. The systems consist of field arrays of heliostat reflectors, a central receiver boiler, short term thermal storage devices, and either ...
FRANK KREITH, RICHARD T. MEYER
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Atmospheric extinction in solar tower plants – A review
Solar Energy, 2017In solar tower plants, radiation losses between the heliostat field and the receiver occur due to atmospheric extinction which varies with site and time. Currently, atmospheric extinction is usually approximated using a few constant standard atmospheric conditions in ray-tracing and plant optimization tools. Some tools allow the input of time dependent
Hanrieder, Natalie +5 more
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Structural Design of the KAUST Solar Tower
Structures Congress 2009, 2009As energy demands on society have become a prominent global issue, a family of structures have emerged that are designed to extract positive energy returns through interaction with the natural environments in which they are placed. Examples of such structures include wind turbines, solar towers, and solar collection systems. Environmentally interactive
Mark C. Waggoner, Sridhar Baldava
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Aplanatic beam-down solar towers
Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration XVI, 2019The pragmatic virtues of ground-level receivers in solar towers have long been recognized, but the associated beam-down optics reduce concentration, resulting in higher heat loss and cost, or the need for an actively-cooled tertiary concentrator that incurs additional optical losses.
Jeffrey M. Gordon, Daniel Feuermann
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