The Wireless Monitoring System of Solar Receiver
In solar thermal utilization technology, one needs to calculate the conversion efficiency and verify whether safety and durability meet the design requirements by monitoring solar receiving system, and improve the solar receiving system according to the experimental data. This paper introduces a system designed for performance detecting of non vacuum solar thermal receiving pipe and its high efficiency selective coating. The system mainly has three functions: 1. Monitor the selective absorbing of heat-receiving pipe, and evaluate the attenuation of coating structure properties, 2. To calculate the thermal power, and analyze receiver's thermal conversion efficiency, the medium's temperature in the exit of receiver should be monitored, 3. When the system is operating, monitor the temperature, pressure, medium's flow in the pipes and the liquid level in the tank. Estimate safety and durability of system.
Solar Thermal Power Generation Technology
Describes the classification of solar thermal power generation technology and its application prospect in our country.
Estimating convective energy losses from solar central receivers
This report outlines a method for estimating the total convective energy loss from a receiver of a solar central receiver power plant. Two types of receivers are considered in detail: a cylindrical, external-type receiver and a cavity-type receiver. The method is intended to provide the designer with a tool for estimating the total convective energy loss that is based on current knowledge of convective heat transfer from receivers to the environment and that is adaptable to new information as it becomes available. The current knowledge consists of information from two recent large-scale experiments, as well as information already in the literature. Also outlined is a method for estimating the uncertainty in the convective loss estimates. Sample estimations of the total convective energy loss and the uncertainties in those convective energy loss estimates for the external receiver of the 10 MWe Solar Thermal Central Receiver Plant (Barstow, California) and the cavity receiver of the International Energy Agency Small Solar Power Systems Project (Almeria, Spain) are included in the appendices.