Measurement of heat loss from a heat receiver assembly of a Fixed Mirror Solar Concentrator
Abstract
An experimental measurements program was performed on a heat receiver of the type currently used by the Fixed Mirror Solar Concentrator (FMSC) at the Sandia Solar Total Energy Test Facility. The program: (1) defined a balanced data sampling matrix for the variables of temperature, wind condition, material property, and configuration; (2) designed and constructed electrically heated thermal mock-ups of the heat receiver, a wind tunnel, and a data collection system; (3) collected performance data and performed evaluation experiments to determine end effects, instrument stability and accuracy, and approach to equilibrium; (4) compared the results with predictions of solar receiver heat loss computer models and with preliminary loss data available from the Sandia program.
- Publication:
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13th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978iece.conf.1554W
- Keywords:
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- Concentrators;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Heat Measurement;
- Mirrors;
- Solar Collectors;
- Thermodynamic Efficiency;
- Energy Technology;
- Performance Tests;
- Tables (Data);
- Test Facilities;
- Energy Production and Conversion