Modeling and simulation of 1 MWe solar tower plant's solar flux distribution on the central cavity receiver

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 29, Issue , 2012, Pages 123-136

  Yu, Qiang ^a   Wang, Zhifeng ^a   Xu, Ershu ^a   Zhang, Hongli ^a   Lu, Zhenwu ^b   Wei, Xiudong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Heliostat field; Modeling; Ray tracing; Simulation; Solar flux

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED ENERGY; CAVITY RECEIVER; EXPERIMENT DATA; HELIOSTAT FIELD; INCIDENT ENERGY; INNER SURFACES; LATERAL SURFACE; MODELING AND SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO; RAY-TRACING METHOD; SAFE DESIGNS; SAFE OPERATION; SIMULATION; SOLAR FLUX; SOLAR TOWER PLANTS; SOLAR TOWERS; TIME POINTS; VERNAL EQUINOX;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS; POWER PLANTS; RAY TRACING;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84867347628     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

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