Applications analysis for the solar industrial process heat market

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:6078157

Stadjuhar, S

The importance of the industrial process heat market in terms of energy consumption and amenability of this market to solar thermal technology are examined. An analytical method for evaluating solar industrial process heat systems has been developed and implemented in a flexible, fast calculating, computer code - PROSYS/ECONMAT. The long-term average performance model PROSYS predicts annual energy output for several collector types, including flat-plate, non-tracking concentrator, one-axis tracking concentrator, and two-axis tracking concentrator. The companion computer program ECONMAT calculates the solar equipment cost and generates a life cycle cost analysis. Analytical results demonstrate the software flexibility for use in feasibility and parametric sensitivity studies.

• Research Organization: Solar Energy Research Inst., Golden, CO (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EG-77-C-01-4042
• OSTI ID: 6078157
• Report Number(s): SERI/TP-34-236; CONF-790459-3
• Conference Information: Instrument Society of America, Pittsburgh modeling and simulation conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 25 Apr 1979
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
140905*
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
299001 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Solar-- (1989-)
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
COMPUTER CODES
COST
DIAGRAMS
E CODES
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
FLOWSHEETS
HEAT
INDUSTRY
LIFE-CYCLE COST
MARKET
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
OPERATION
P CODES
PERFORMANCE
PROCESS HEAT
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR PROCESS HEAT
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT