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Solar pilot plant, phase I. Quarterly report No. 1, July--December 1975

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7348357· OSTI ID:7348357
Honeywell Inc. is investigating the technical and economic feasibility of generating electricity from solar energy. During the first 6 months of the program (1 July--31 December 1975), a preliminary design baseline for a 10-MW(e) solar pilot plant was generated and analyzed. Subsequently, several changes were made to improve performance and/or reduce cost. Conceptual designs and research experiments were generated for three key subsystems--collector, steam generator, and thermal storage. Limited testing was done to study the problem of removing eutectic salts from vaporizer tubes in the thermal storage subsystem. The program was on schedule at the end of 1975. Plans for the first quarter of 1976 include ordering long-leadtime items for the subsystem research experiments, continuing analysis of the conceptual designs preparatory to detailing them, and continuing engineering model experiments.
Research Organization:
Honeywell, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn. (USA). Systems and Research Center
OSTI ID:
7348357
Report Number(s):
SAN-1109-76/T1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English