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Title: Performance of the Southern California Edison Company Stirling dish

Abstract

McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company (MDAC) and United Stirling AB of Sweden (USAB) formed a joint venture in 1982 to develop and produce a Stirling dish solar generating system. In this report, the six year development and testing program continued by the Southern California Edison Company (SCE) is described. Each Stirling dish module consists of a sun tracking dish concentrator developed by the MDAC and a Stirling engine driven power conversion unit (PCU) developed by USAB. The Stirling dish system demonstrated twice the peak and daily solar-to-electric conversion efficiency of any other system then under development. This system continues to set the performance standard for solar to electric systems being developed in the early 1990`s. Test data are presented and used to estimate the performance of a commercial system.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]
  1. Southern California Edison Co., Rosemead, CA (United States)
  2. Mako Enterprises, Huntington Beach, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Southern California Edison Co., Rosemead, CA (United States); Mako Enterprises, Huntington Beach, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10110545
Report Number(s):
SAND-93-7098
ON: DE94004676; TRN: 94:000193
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Oct 1993
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION; EFFICIENCY; COST ESTIMATION; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; COMMERCIALIZATION; DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS; COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATORS; PERFORMANCE TESTING; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; CSP; Concentrating Solar Power; 140501; 140300; 140600; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION; ECONOMIC, INDUSTRIAL, AND BUSINESS ASPECTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEMS

Citation Formats

Lopez, C W, and Stone, K W. Performance of the Southern California Edison Company Stirling dish. United States: N. p., 1993. Web. doi:10.2172/10110545.
Lopez, C W, & Stone, K W. Performance of the Southern California Edison Company Stirling dish. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10110545
Lopez, C W, and Stone, K W. 1993. "Performance of the Southern California Edison Company Stirling dish". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10110545. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10110545.
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title = {Performance of the Southern California Edison Company Stirling dish},
author = {Lopez, C W and Stone, K W},
abstractNote = {McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company (MDAC) and United Stirling AB of Sweden (USAB) formed a joint venture in 1982 to develop and produce a Stirling dish solar generating system. In this report, the six year development and testing program continued by the Southern California Edison Company (SCE) is described. Each Stirling dish module consists of a sun tracking dish concentrator developed by the MDAC and a Stirling engine driven power conversion unit (PCU) developed by USAB. The Stirling dish system demonstrated twice the peak and daily solar-to-electric conversion efficiency of any other system then under development. This system continues to set the performance standard for solar to electric systems being developed in the early 1990`s. Test data are presented and used to estimate the performance of a commercial system.},
doi = {10.2172/10110545},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10110545}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993},
month = {Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993}
}