64 kW concentrator Photovoltaics Application Test Center. Volume. Final report

Technical Report · Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5415761· OSTI ID:5415761

Jardine, D. M.; Jones, D. W.

Kaman Sciences Corporation has designed a 64 kW Concentrating Photovoltaic Applications Test Center (APTEC). The APTEC employs a combined concentrating photovoltaic array in a total energy system application for load sharing the electric and thermal demands of a large computer center with the interfaced electric and natural gas utility. The photovoltaic array is composed of two-axis tracking heliostats of Fresnel lens concentrating, silicon solar cell modules. The modules are cooled with a fluid which transfers heat to a ground coupled heat sink/storage unit for subsequent use in meeting the computer center's thermal load demand. The combined photovoltaic power system shares basic components - a power conditioning unit, batteries and thermal conditioning equipment - with the electric and natural gas utility service, improving the computer center's operating availability time and displacing a portion of the fossil fuel required to power the computer center with solar energy. The detailed system design is reported.

• Research Organization: Kaman Sciences Corp., Colorado Springs, CO (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-78ET11025
• OSTI ID: 5415761
• Report Number(s): DOE/CS/24278-1(Vol.1)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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