Sandia Optical Fringe Analysis Slope Tool (SOFAST) Improvement Effort (Final Report)
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
The Sandia Optical Fringe Analysis Slope Tool (SOFAST) is a tool that has been developed at Sandia to measure the surface slope of concentrating solar power optics. This tool has largely remained of research quality over the past few years. Since SOFAST is important to ongoing tests happening at Sandia as well as an interest to others outside Sandia, there is a desire to bring SOFAST up to professional software standards. The goal of this effort was to make progress in several broad areas including: code quality, sample data collection, and validation and testing. During the course of this effort, much progress was made in these areas. SOFAST is now a much more professional grade tool. There are, however, some areas of improvement that could not be addressed in the timeframe of this work and will be addressed in the continuation of this effort.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
- DOE Contract Number:
- NA0003525
- OSTI ID:
- 1855054
- Report Number(s):
- SAND2022-0187; 702684
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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