Design and analysis of a system using CPC collectors to collect heat and to produce industrial process steam

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980 · Proc. Annu. Meet. - Am. Sect. Int. Sol. Energy Soc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6550380

Hsieh, C K ^[1]; Reed, K A; Schertz, W W

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1. Univ. of Florida, Gainesville

A system has been designed to use CPC (Winston) collectors to collect solar energy and to produce industrial process steam. The system is composed of two loops of collectors. In the collector loop the energy collected is used to operate a preheater. The preheated water is reheated in the boiler loop where the heated water at an elevated pressure is throttled to steam in a flash boiler. Two types of receivers are used in the system. In the collector loop concentric tube receivers are used. Heat pipe receivers are used in collectors in the boiler loop to minimize scaling problems. An attempt is made to use computer modeling to study the collector performance. A thermodynamic cycle analysis is also given to evaluate the system performance.

• DOE Contract Number: W-31-109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6550380
• Report Number(s): CONF-800604-P2
• Journal Information: Proc. Annu. Meet. - Am. Sect. Int. Sol. Energy Soc.; (United States), Vol. 3.1; Conference: American section of the International Solar Energy Society conference, Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2 Jun 1980
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATORS
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
SOLAR PROCESS HEAT
PERFORMANCE
STEAM GENERATORS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
DESIGN
FLASHING
HEAT PIPES
THERMODYNAMIC CYCLES
BOILERS
ENERGY
EQUIPMENT
EVAPORATION
HEAT
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
PROCESS HEAT
SIMULATION
SOLAR CONCENTRATORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
VAPOR GENERATORS
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141000 - Solar Collectors & Concentrators