Program for the calculation of paraboloidal-dish solar thermal power plant performance
A program capable of calculating the design-point and quasi-steady-state annual performance of a paraboloidal-concentrator solar thermal power plant without energy storage has been written for a programmable calculator equipped with suitable printer. The power plant may be located at any site for which a histogram of annual direct normal insolation is available. Inputs required by the program are aperture area and the design and annual efficiencies of the concentrator; the intercept factor and apparent absorptance of the receiver aperture, and the receiver heat loss; the design efficiency of the power conversion subsystem and a polynomial representation of its normalized part-load efficiency; the efficiency of the electrical generator or alternator; the efficiency of the electric power conditioning and transport subsystem; and the fractional parasitic losses for the plant. (Losses to auxiliaries associated with each individual module are to be deducted when the power conversion subsystem efficiencies are calculated.) Outputs provided by the program are the system design efficiency, the annualized receiver efficiency, the annualized power conversion subsystem efficiency, the total annual direct normal insolation received per unit area of concentrator aperture, and the system annual efficiency.
- Research Organization:
- Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AM04-80AL13137
- OSTI ID:
- 5633502
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/JPL/1060-85; JPL-PUB-85-36; ON: DE85014495
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
140703* -- Solar Thermal Power Systems-- Distributed Collector
141000 -- Solar Collectors & Concentrators
CALCULATORS
COMPUTER CALCULATIONS
COMPUTER CODES
CONCENTRATING COLLECTORS
DISTRIBUTED COLLECTOR POWER PLANTS
EFFICIENCY
EQUIPMENT
INSOLATION
PARABOLIC COLLECTORS
PARABOLIC DISH COLLECTORS
PERFORMANCE
POWER PLANTS
PROGRAMMING
S CODES
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR POWER PLANTS
SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS
THERMAL POWER PLANTS