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Title: Central solar energy receiver

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5379011

An improved tower-mounted central solar energy receiver is disclosed for heating air drawn through the receiver by an induced draft fan. 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 wedgeshaped 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.

Assignee:
EDB-84-021028
Patent Number(s):
US 4394859
OSTI ID:
5379011
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 27 Oct 1981; Other Information: PAT-APPL-315397
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English