Design and performance predictions of the DOE small community solar experiment at Osage City, Kansas

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

OSTI ID:5836857

Rush, E E

To gain system-level operating experience, the Department of Energy, through cost-shared cooperative agreements with industry is sponsoring the design, construction, and operation of two 100 kWe dish-electric solar thermal power plant field experiments. The first of these will be located at Osage City, Kansas, and is currently in the final design and prototype operation phase. The solar plant, being designed by Barber-Nichols Engineering, will incorporate four power modules, each consisting of a parabolic dish concentrator by Power Kinetics, Inc., and a 25 kWe organic Rankine cycle turbine/alternator by Barber-Nichols. Included in this presentation will be a description of the system design with particular emphasis on the concentrator, receiver, and power conversion assembly; a discussion of the issues and tradeoffs involved in the design and operation of dish-electric systems; the results of module performance verification testing being conducted at Sandia National Laboratories' Distributed Receiver Test Facility in Albuquerque; and finally performance predictions for the 100 kWe Osage City plant and for future solar energy power plants of this type.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5836857
• Report Number(s): SAND-86-0295C; CONF-860655-5; ON: DE86009624
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
140700* -- Solar Thermal Power Systems
141000 -- Solar Collectors & Concentrators
CONCENTRATING COLLECTORS
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS
DESIGN
ENGINES
EQUIPMENT
FEDERAL REGION VII
HEAT ENGINES
KANSAS
NORTH AMERICA
PARABOLIC COLLECTORS
PARABOLIC DISH COLLECTORS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
POWER RANGE 10-100 KW
RANKINE CYCLE ENGINES
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
TESTING
USA