Conceputual design of a solar-heated-air receiver coupled to a Brayton or Stirling engine

Conference · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:6084246

Hamilton, N. I.; Jarvinen, P. O.

A particularly interesting possibility for a parabolic dish/cavity receiver combination is the coupling of the cavity to a Stirling or Brayton engine. The design of the receiver is a pacing item in the development of the approach and requires knowledge of the flux distribution within the receiver. Thus several cavity configurations need to be considered to ascertain the trade-offs between cavity geometry and flux distribution. Simple analytical tools developed are applied to the analysis and design of a dome-capped cylindrical receiver that has desirable characteristics for transferring heat to a Dish/Brayton or Dish/Stirling system.

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Lexington (USA). Lincoln Lab.
• OSTI ID: 6084246
• Report Number(s): COO-4878-7; CONF-790541-51
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
140700* -- Solar Thermal Power Systems
140909 -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Miscellaneous Solar Applications-- (1980-)
141000 -- Solar Collectors & Concentrators
ANALYTICAL SOLUTION
BRAYTON CYCLE
CALCULATION METHODS
CAVITY RECEIVERS
CONCENTRATING COLLECTORS
CONFIGURATION
CYLINDRICAL CONFIGURATION
DESIGN
ENGINES
FLUX DENSITY
HEAT ENGINES
PARABOLIC COLLECTORS
PARABOLIC DISH COLLECTORS
POWER PLANTS
RADIANT FLUX DENSITY
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR HEAT ENGINES
SOLAR POWER PLANTS
SOLAR RECEIVERS
SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS
STIRLING CYCLE
STIRLING ENGINES
THERMODYNAMIC CYCLES