Industrial applications of solar total energy. Volume V. Catalog of conceptual designs. Final report

Technical Report · Fri Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:5290447

Conceptual designs for five industries have been completed (meat packing, fluid milk, sugar beets, asphalt materials, and concrete block). These industries represent three of the major industry groups (Standard Industry Code 20, 29, and 32). Each industry was evaluated at a primary location corresponding to the location of an actual industry whose demand was used in sizing the Solar Total Energy Station (STES). Three alternate locations were selected for each industry. In all, 12 locations were analyzed. Six of the locations were assessed for more than one industry. Two different types of collector fields were sized and their performance analyzed for each industry/location. The collector types were central receiver and two-axis tracking distributed collectors. One industry, meat packing, was also analyzed using one-axis tracking distributed collectors as well. All of the designs are hybrid in nature, that is, they use auxiliary energy supplied by fossil-fueled heaters during times of reduced insolation. All of the conceptual designs provide 100 percent of the individual industry's annual energy demand, with between 71.8 percent and 91.5 percent of the energy being supplied by solar depending on industry, location, and collector type. One exception is the sugar beet processing industry where a scaled load was used. In this case, the hybrid STES provides 100 percent of the electrical demand and 25 percent of the process heat. This was done by maximizing electrical generating efficiency at some expense in process heat displacement. Component summaries including major subsystem descriptions and operating parameters are included, in tabular form, in the appendix for each conceptual design.

• Research Organization: McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co., Huntington Beach, Calif. (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5290447
• Report Number(s): SAN/1132-2/5
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ASPHALTS
BEETS
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
BITUMENS
BODY FLUIDS
BUILDING MATERIALS
CANNING
CENTRAL RECEIVERS
CONCENTRATING COLLECTORS
CONCRETES
DESIGN
ENERGY
ENERGY DEMAND
ENERGY SOURCES
EQUIPMENT
FABRICATION
FOOD
FOOD INDUSTRY
HEAT
INDUSTRY
MANUFACTURING
MATERIALS
MATERIALS WORKING
MEAT
MEAT INDUSTRY
MILK
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PASTEURIZATION
POWER PLANTS
PROCESS HEAT
PROCESSING
PRODUCTION
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
SIZE
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR ENERGY
SOLAR POWER PLANTS
SOLAR PROCESS HEAT
SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS
TAR
THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE EQUIPMENT
TOTAL ENERGY SYSTEMS
VEGETABLES