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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Thermal Receiver"”.
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Modeling the solar thermal receiver for the CSPonD Project
… objective was to create an accurate steady state thermal model of a molten salt receiver prototype with a horizontal divider plate in the molten salt for Concentrated Solar Power on Demand (CSPonD). The purpose of the divider plate is to separate the heated salt on the top from the colder salt on …
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Improving solar thermal receiver performance via spectral and directional selectivity
… sunlight. Two silica aerogel based solar receivers are presented as practical devices utilizing spectral selectivity. A solar thermal aerogel receiver is predicted to achieve similar performance to state of the art vacuum tube receivers, and a hybrid aerogel receiver that collects …
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Design and validation of an air window for a molten salt solar thermal receiver
… development of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) receivers and focuses on the design of an efficient aperture. An air window is proposed for use as the aperture of a CSP molten salt receiver to mitigate efficiency losses due to heat and mass transfer. The current state of the art in CSP technology …
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Experimental investigations of using silica aerogel to harvest unconcetrated sunlight in a solar thermal receiver
Significant demand exists for solar thermal heat in the mid-temperature ranges (120 oC – 220 oC). Generating heat in this range requires expensive optics or vacuum systems in order to utilize the diluted solar energy flux reaching the earth’s surface. Current flat plate solar collectors have …
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Control System Design for a Solar Receiver-Reactor
Solar-thermal receiver-reactor (RR) units are being developed to harness the technology's potential for use in both electrical power generation and materials processing industries. However, there is still substantial work needed to commercialise the technology and a key facet to this is the design …
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Optical and Thermal Analysis of a Heteroconical Tubular Cavity Solar Receiver
… and optimise the Heteroconical Tubular Cavity receiver for a parabolic trough reflector. This study presents a three-stage development process which allowed for the development, investigation and optimisation of the Heteroconical receiver. The first stage of development focused on the …