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Ceramic high temperature receiver design and testsThe High Temperature Solar Thermal Receiver, which was tested a Edwards AFB, CA during the winter of 1980-1981, evolved from technologies developed over a five year period of work. This receiver was tested at the Army Solar Furnace at White Sands, NM in 1976. The receiver, was tested successfully at 1768 deg F and showed thermal efficiencies of 85%. The results were sufficiently promising to lead ERDA to fund our development and test of a 250 kW receiver to measure the efficiency of an open cavity receiver atop a central tower of a heliostat field. This receiver was required to be design scalable to 10, 50, and 100 MW-electric sizes to show applicability to central power tower receivers. That receiver employed rectagular silicon carbide panels and vertical stanchions to achieve scalability. The construction was shown to be fully scalable; and the receiver was operated at temperatures up to 2000 deg F to achieve the performance goals of the experiment during tests at the GIT advanced components test facility during the fall of 1978.
Document ID
19830002274
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Davis, S. B.
(Sanders Associates, Inc. Nashua, NH, United States)
Date Acquired
August 11, 2013
Publication Date
July 15, 1982
Publication Information
Publication: JPL Parabolic Dish Solar Thermal Power Ann. Program Rev., Proc. 247-255 (SEE N83-10525 01-44)
Subject Category
Energy Production And Conversion
Accession Number
83N10544
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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