Crosbyton Solar Power Project, Phase I. Volume I. Main text

Technical Report · Fri Feb 18 04:00:00 EST 1977

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5488947· OSTI ID:5488947

The Crosbyton Solar Power Project consists of an investigation of the merits of the FMDF (Fixed Mirror, Distributed Focus) or Solar Gridiron Concept for production of electricity in the context of the environment and electrical demand of the City of Crosbyton, Texas. The organization of this report is designed to feature the nominal system and to document the development of the capability for analysis and optimization of such systems. A general description of the FMDF Concept is given in Section I. In Section II, the Crosbyton site is described in detail in order to lay out the constraints of relevance as a yardstick for the nominal design; in Section III, an overall description of the nominal system is presented. The next six sections discuss various specific aspects of the system nominated. Sections X and XI summarize the expected performance and costs of the nominal system, and Section XII assesses the overall financial aspect of such systems. Section XIII gives response to the quick look conducted by the earlier chapters by identifying those areas in which there is likelihood that initial engineering judgement can be improved. This section probes what has been learned and leads to the overall assessment of Section XIV. The appendices document various details vital to the results of the main text and to the achievement of downstream deliverables. These are treated separately.

• Research Organization: Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock (USA); E-Systems, Inc., Dallas, TX (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76ET20255
• OSTI ID: 5488947
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/20255-T2-Vol.1; ON: DE84002707
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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