Heat engine development for solar thermal dish-electric power plants

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5836814

Linker, K L

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Solar Thermal Program has as one of its responsibilities the development and evaluation of heat engine technologies which are applicable to Distributed Receiver Systems. The primary research and development activities, for the past several years, have involved the so-called dish-electric concept in which a heat engine, solar receiver, and generator are coupled and located at the focus of a parabolic dish concentrator. Power conversion assemblies (PCA) would be deployed at the size of about 25 to 50 kWe which is consistent with concentrator development in the 11-15m diameter range. This report will outline the status of heat engine development, present test data and performance evaluations from experimental work to date, and discuss the strategy for future development efforts.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5836814
• Report Number(s): SAND-86-0289C; CONF-860655-1; ON: DE86009377
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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EQUIPMENT
HEAT ENGINES
PARABOLIC COLLECTORS
PARABOLIC DISH COLLECTORS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
POWER PLANTS
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SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR HEAT ENGINES
SOLAR POWER PLANTS
SOLAR RECEIVERS
SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS
STIRLING ENGINES
TESTING
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