Tower Illuminance Model
Software
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OSTI ID:1399217
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Sims Industries
TIM is a real-time interactive concentrating solar field simulation. TIM models a concentrating tower (receiver), heliostat field, and potential reflected glare based on user-specified parameters such as field capacity, tower height and location. TIM provides a navigable 3D interface, allowing the user to “fly” around the field to determine the potential glare hazard from off-target heliostats. Various heliostat aiming strategies are available for specifying how heliostats behave when in standby mode. Strategies include annulus, point-per-group, up-aiming and single-point-focus. Additionally, TIM includes an avian path feature for approximating the irradiance and feather temperature of a bird flying through the field airspace.
- Short Name / Acronym:
- TIM V.2.0; 005470MLTPL00
- Site Accession Number:
- SCR #2237
- Version:
- 00
- Programming Language(s):
- Medium: X; OS: Any that can run a current internet browser
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Contributing Organization:
- Sims Industries
- DOE Contract Number:
- NA0003525
- OSTI ID:
- 1399217
- Country of Origin:
- United States
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