United States Department of Energy solar receiver technology development
Conference
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· Solar Energy Materials
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
The United States Department of Energy (DOE), through Sandia National Laboratories, has been conducting a solar thermal receiver technology development program, which maintains a balance between analytical modeling, bench and small-scale testing, and experimentation conducted at scales representative of commercial-size equipment. Central receiver activities emphasize both molten salt-based systems and volumetric air devices. These receivers are expected to be utilized in solar power plants rated between 100 and 200 MWe. Distributed receiver research focuses on liquid metal refluxing devices. These are intended to mate parabolic dish concentrators with Stirling-cycle engines in the 5 to 25 kWe power range. This paper describes recent progress in this development program and discusses future plans.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 5743352
- Report Number(s):
- SAND--90-0934C; CONF-9008139--4; ON: DE91012653
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: Solar Energy Materials Journal Issue: 1-4 Journal Volume: 24
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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14 SOLAR ENERGY
140702* -- Solar Thermal Power Systems-- Central Receiver
141000 -- Solar Collectors & Concentrators
42 ENGINEERING
425003 -- Engineering-- Power Cycles-- Stirling-- (1980-)
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
BOILING
CENTRAL RECEIVERS
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS
ENGINES
EQUIPMENT
HEAT ENGINES
HEAT PIPES
MOLTEN SALTS
NUCLEATE BOILING
PERFORMANCE TESTING
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
POOL BOILING
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SALTS
SOLAR CONCENTRATORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR RECEIVERS
STIRLING ENGINES
TESTING
140702* -- Solar Thermal Power Systems-- Central Receiver
141000 -- Solar Collectors & Concentrators
42 ENGINEERING
425003 -- Engineering-- Power Cycles-- Stirling-- (1980-)
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
BOILING
CENTRAL RECEIVERS
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS
ENGINES
EQUIPMENT
HEAT ENGINES
HEAT PIPES
MOLTEN SALTS
NUCLEATE BOILING
PERFORMANCE TESTING
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
POOL BOILING
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SALTS
SOLAR CONCENTRATORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR RECEIVERS
STIRLING ENGINES
TESTING