Industrial process end-use matching. Technical planning report
Several recent studies have emphasized the potential for application of solar thermal systems to the process heating needs of industry. The potential exists for an efficient matching of output from solar collectors operating at a specified temperature to the required process temperature and heat rate of a variety of manufacturing processes. The purpose of SERI Task 3403 is to gather data on industrial process heat requirements for specific manufacturing processes and to test a number of currently available solar systems in order to determine economically optimal matches of these processes and systems at selected sites. This plan identifies three major efforts: The assembly of data bases for industrial process heat requirements, collector characteristics, local economic factors, and local climatological factors. The creation of a fast-calculating computer code to determine the long-term average annual performance of solar process heat systems (PROSYS). The analysis of economic and commercial feasibility of specific solar systems with respect to plant requirements.
- Research Organization:
- Solar Energy Research Inst., Golden, CO (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- EG-77-C-01-4042
- OSTI ID:
- 6496818
- Report Number(s):
- SERI-27
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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