User's manual for DELSOL2: a computer code for calculating the optical performance and optimal system design for solar-thermal central-receiver plants
DELSOL2 is a revised and substantially extended version of the DELSOL computer program for calculating collector field performance and layout, and optimal system design for solar thermal central receiver plants. The code consists of a detailed model of the optical performance, a simpler model of the non-optical performance, an algorithm for field layout, and a searching algorithm to find the best system design. The latter two features are coupled to a cost model of central receiver components and an economic model for calculating energy costs. The code can handle flat, focused and/or canted heliostats, and external cylindrical, multi-aperture cavity, and flat plate receivers. The program optimizes the tower height, receiver size, field layout, heliostat spacings, and tower position at user specified power levels subject to flux limits on the receiver and land constraints for field layout. The advantages of speed and accuracy characteristic of Version I are maintained in DELSOL2.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 6082347
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-81-8237; ON: DE82003875
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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HELIOSTATS
COMPUTER CODES
OPTIMIZATION
PERFORMANCE
CAVITY RECEIVERS
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COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
CONSTRAINTS
COST
D CODES
DESIGN
ECONOMICS
EMPLACEMENT
MANUALS
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
SHADING
SOLAR FLUX
TOWERS
DOCUMENT TYPES
EQUIPMENT
MECHANICAL STRUCTURES
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR RECEIVERS
CSP
Concentrating Solar Power
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