Abstract

In solar power tower (SPT) systems, selecting the optimum location of thousands of heliostats and the most profitable tower height and receiver size remains a challenge. Campo code is prepared for the detailed design of such plants in particular, the optimum layout, provided that the plant size is known. Therefore, less exhaustive codes, as DELSOL3, are also needed to perform preliminary parametric analysis that narrows the most economic size of the plant.

Highlights

  • In solar power tower (SPT) systems, selecting the optimum and definite location of every one of the thousands of heliostats and the most profitable tower height and receiver size remains a challenge

  • Campo code is prepared for the detailed design of such plants in particular, the optimum layout, provided that the plant size is known

  • Several simplified optimisation codes, which only optimise the heliostat field layout based on given receiver size and tower height, have recently emerged.[1,2,3,4]

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Summary

Improved heliostat field design for solar tower plants

Cite as: AIP Conference Proceedings 1850, 030008 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4984351 Published Online: 27 June 2017 Francisco J. Collado and Jesús Guallar ARTICLES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN Towards high efficiency heliostat fields AIP Conference Proceedings 1850, 030001 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4984344 Effect of heliostat size on the levelized cost of electricity for power towers AIP Conference Proceedings 1850, 030038 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4984381 Optical performance comparison between heliostat field generation algorithms AIP Conference Proceedings 2033, 040020 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5067056

INTRODUCTION
Generating Regular Radial Staggered Layouts
Improving and Simplifying the Layout Design
SOME DETAILS ABOUT CAMPO CODE FILES
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