期刊
ENERGIES
卷 13, 期 15, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/en13154012
关键词
linked heliostats; solar tracking; solar tower; central receiver technology
资金
- Global Environment Facility of the World Bank Group, through the PRODETES award [PRODETES 18-BR-PC-046]
- CONACYT
Heliostats are critical components of solar tower technology and different strategies have been proposed to reduce their costs; among them diminishing their size to reduce wind loads or linking nearby heliostats mechanically, to reduce the overall number of actuators. This document aims to describe the development of a linked array of mini-heliostats which move together in an elevation-Fresnel configuration. This configuration consists of an array of mirrors rotating around linked parallel axes, in a linear Fresnel style with an added elevation mechanism allowing all axes to incline simultaneously in the plane North-South-Zenith; that is equivalent to an array of N linked mini-heliostats moved by only two drives instead of 2N. A detailed analytical study of the Sun-tracking performance of this kind of heliostat arrays was carried out, and an 8-mirror prototype based on optical and mechanical analyses was designed, built and tested. Even though the mirrors are flat, the array produced a rather compact radiative flux distribution on the receiver. The flux distribution is compatible with a slope error of the order of 1 mrad.Peak and mean concentration ratios reached 6.89 and 3.94, respectively.
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