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A transient model for the heat exchange in a solar thermal once through cavity receiver

Date

Authors

Zapata, Jose

Pye, John

Lovegrove, Keith

Publisher

Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

This paper presents a dynamic model of a once-through-to-superheat solar steam receiver for electricity generation. The receiver is a mono-tube cavity boiler mounted at the focal point of a 500m2 paraboloidal dish concentrator at the Australian National U

Keywords

Keywords: Australian National University; Concentrating solar thermal power; Direct steam generation; Mass and energy conservation; Moving boundaries; Paraboloidal dish concentrators; State space representation; Two-phase flow modelling; Dynamic models; Solar heati Concentrating solar thermal power; Direct steam generation; Moving boundary formulation; Transient two-phase flow modelling

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/72780

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Solar Energy

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.solener.2013.04.005

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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