Design report: Westinghouse second generation heliostat. Volume II. Manufacturing, installation, transportation, and cost estimates

Technical Report · Sun Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6510013

A manufacturing plan is given to define the strategy to be used to build heliostats in large volume for solar central receiver power plants generating power commercially in field arrays of 3956 heliostats to produce 50 megawatts of electric power, and to show how the plan will be implemented. The plan is to assemble the heliostats at the solar central receiver power plant site in a transportable building, which will be dismantled when enough heliostats are manufactured for one plant, and re-erected at the next plant site. Plans are presented for parts and materials procurement, and the needed capital equipment, including the Seaman Portomod portable building, plant equipment and production equipment are listed. The processes for assembling and installing the heliostats, and the personnel required for the job are discussed, as well as field maintenance and quality control. Assembly plant capacity and the heliostat production schedule are estimated. Cost estimates are tabulated for production, operation and maintenance of heliostats. Present value and levelized annual costs are estimated. (LEW)

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (USA). Advanced Energy Systems Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 6510013
• Report Number(s): SAND-79-8193/2; AESD-TME-3028
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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MAINTENANCE
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