Central solar-energy receiver

Patent · Tue Oct 27 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:5352780

An improved tower-mounted central solar energy receiver for heating air drawn through the receiver by an induced draft fan is described. A number of vertically oriented, energy absorbing, fin-shaped slats are radially arranged in a number of concentric cylindrical arrays on top of the tower coaxially surrounding a pipe having air holes through which the fan draws air which is heated by the slats which receive the solar radiation from a heliostat field. A number of vertically oriented and wedge-shaped columns are radially arranged in a number of concentric cylindrical clusters surrounding the slat arrays. The columns have two mirror-reflecting sides to reflect radiation into the slat arrays and one energy absorbing side to reduce reradiation and reflection from the slat arrays.

• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• Assignee: Dept. of Energy
• Patent Number(s): None
• Application Number: ON: DE82016121
• OSTI ID: 5352780
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CONFIGURATION
CYLINDRICAL CONFIGURATION
DESIGN
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
FINS
HEATERS
PIPES
POWER SYSTEMS
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