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Mobile computing device configured to compute irradiance, glint, and glare of the sun

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1126697

Described herein are technologies pertaining to computing the solar irradiance distribution on a surface of a receiver in a concentrating solar power system or glint/glare emitted from a reflective entity. A mobile computing device includes at least one camera that captures images of the Sun and the entity of interest, wherein the images have pluralities of pixels having respective pluralities of intensity values. Based upon the intensity values of the pixels in the respective images, the solar irradiance distribution on the surface of the entity or glint/glare corresponding to the entity is computed by the mobile computing device.

Research Organization:
SNL-A (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM (United States))
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
Assignee:
Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
Patent Number(s):
8,669,509
Application Number:
13/240,995
OSTI ID:
1126697
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (3)

Development and Performance of a Digital Image Radiometer for Heliostat Evaluation at Solar One journal November 1985
Beam Characterization and Improvement With a Flux Mapping System for Dish Concentrators conference January 2002
Focal region measurements of the 20m2 tiled dish at the Australian National University journal August 1998

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