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Title: Program for the calculation of paraboloidal-dish solar thermal power plant performance

Abstract

A program capable of calculating the design-point and quasi-steady-state annual performance of a paraboloidal-concentrator solar thermal power plant without energy storage has been written for a programmable calculator equipped with suitable printer. The power plant may be located at any site for which a histogram of annual direct normal insolation is available. Inputs required by the program are aperture area and the design and annual efficiencies of the concentrator; the intercept factor and apparent absorptance of the receiver aperture, and the receiver heat loss; the design efficiency of the power conversion subsystem and a polynomial representation of its normalized part-load efficiency; the efficiency of the electrical generator or alternator; the efficiency of the electric power conditioning and transport subsystem; and the fractional parasitic losses for the plant. (Losses to auxiliaries associated with each individual module are to be deducted when the power conversion subsystem efficiencies are calculated.) Outputs provided by the program are the system design efficiency, the annualized receiver efficiency, the annualized power conversion subsystem efficiency, the total annual direct normal insolation received per unit area of concentrator aperture, and the system annual efficiency.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
5633502
Report Number(s):
DOE/JPL/1060-85; JPL-PUB-85-36
ON: DE85014495
DOE Contract Number:  
AM04-80AL13137
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products. Original copy available until stock is exhausted
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; DISTRIBUTED COLLECTOR POWER PLANTS; PERFORMANCE; CALCULATORS; COMPUTER CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER CODES; EFFICIENCY; INSOLATION; PARABOLIC DISH COLLECTORS; PROGRAMMING; S CODES; CONCENTRATING COLLECTORS; EQUIPMENT; PARABOLIC COLLECTORS; POWER PLANTS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; 140703* - Solar Thermal Power Systems- Distributed Collector; 141000 - Solar Collectors & Concentrators

Citation Formats

Bowyer, Jr, J M. Program for the calculation of paraboloidal-dish solar thermal power plant performance. United States: N. p., 1985. Web.
Bowyer, Jr, J M. Program for the calculation of paraboloidal-dish solar thermal power plant performance. United States.
Bowyer, Jr, J M. 1985. "Program for the calculation of paraboloidal-dish solar thermal power plant performance". United States.
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abstractNote = {A program capable of calculating the design-point and quasi-steady-state annual performance of a paraboloidal-concentrator solar thermal power plant without energy storage has been written for a programmable calculator equipped with suitable printer. The power plant may be located at any site for which a histogram of annual direct normal insolation is available. Inputs required by the program are aperture area and the design and annual efficiencies of the concentrator; the intercept factor and apparent absorptance of the receiver aperture, and the receiver heat loss; the design efficiency of the power conversion subsystem and a polynomial representation of its normalized part-load efficiency; the efficiency of the electrical generator or alternator; the efficiency of the electric power conditioning and transport subsystem; and the fractional parasitic losses for the plant. (Losses to auxiliaries associated with each individual module are to be deducted when the power conversion subsystem efficiencies are calculated.) Outputs provided by the program are the system design efficiency, the annualized receiver efficiency, the annualized power conversion subsystem efficiency, the total annual direct normal insolation received per unit area of concentrator aperture, and the system annual efficiency.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 15 00:00:00 EST 1985},
month = {Mon Apr 15 00:00:00 EST 1985}
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