Paraboloidal Dish Arrays with Steam Energy Transport Network

A model for calculating annual system costs that are associated with collector placement for an array of paraboloidal dishes with a steam energy transport network is presented. All possible lattices that define a regularly-spaced dish-array within a discrete finite parameter space are applied to a previously proposed array shape and energy transport network topology. An optimum lattice, subject to constraints introduced by shading and losses associated with the energy transport network, is presented. A brief analysis of the lattice suggests that summerand winter-solstice sunrise azimuth angles may inform the placement of such arrays.