Status of the Boeing Dish Engine Critical Component project
The Boeing Company's Dish Engine Critical Component (DECC) project started in April of 1998. It is a continuation of a solar energy program started by McDonnel Douglas (now Boeing) and United Stirling of Sweden in the mid 1980s. The overall objectives, schedule, and status of this project are presented in this paper. The hardware test configuration, hardware background, operation, and test plans are also discussed. A summary is given of the test data, which includes the daily power performance, generated energy, working-gas usage, mirror reflectivity, solar insolation, on-sun track time. Generating time, and system availability. The system performance based upon the present test data is compared to test data from the 1984/88 McDonnel Douglas/United Stirling AB/Southern California Edison test program. The test data shows that the present power, energy, and mirror performance is comparable to when the hardware was first manufactured 14 years ago.
- Research Organization:
- Boeing Co., Huntington Beach, CA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 20030577
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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