2014 This report is an account of the design, checkout and solar testing of a cavity receiver using metal gas-in-tube heat exchangers. The design represents a scale model of a Brayton cycle solar electric plant receiver. The program span from initiation of design to test completion was 32 months. The DOE-Central receiver test facility was utilized in this inaugural test. Tests involved controll...

This work is about an appropriate choice of a renewable energy source between a wind turbine and a solar power plant. The selected renewable energy source should supply electricity to a site, part of the University Alioune Diop of Bambey, in Ngoundiane, Thies region. The work is based on analysis of meteorological parameters (wind speed, ambient temperature, solar irradiation). According to thi...

Evaluation of the global solar energy potential at chandrapur, latitude 20.06 N and longitude70.3 E was carried out in this work. The amount of incident solar radiation significantlydetermines the electricity produced by Photovoltaic (PV) system . The paper reports a novelmethod to measure the potential of solar electricity generation in chandrapur on the basis ofsolar radiation...

In order to further improve the economies of scale which are inherent in ECD’s continuous roil-to-roll amorphous silicon alloy solar cell manufacturing process, we have developed a concept for a serpentine web plasma CVD deposition process to maximize throughput while keeping the size of the deposition chambers small. When this technique is incorporated into a continuous rollto-roll PV manufact...

The objectif of the present work is to determinate the potential of the solar parabolic trough collector (PTC) for use in the design of a solar thermal power plant in Algeria. The study is based on a mathematical modeling of the PTC. Heat balance has been established respectively on the heat transfer fluid (HTF), the absorber tube and the glass envelop using the principle of energy conservation...

Multiple Effect Distillation (MED) is generally considered to be the desalination technology most suited to integration with concentrating solar thermal collectors on a medium to large scale. However the cost and energy requirement of Reverse Osmosis (RO) have fallen significantly in recent years, so that solar thermal powered RO deserves consideration. We compare commercial desalination proces...

This paper describes the application of a non-linear adaptive constrained model-based predictive control scheme to the distributed collector field of a solar power plant at the Plataforma Solar de Almería (Spain). This methodology exploits the intrinsic non-linear modelling capabilities of nonlinear state-space neural networks and their online training by means of an unscented Kalman filter. Te...

Solar chimney power plants are plants based on solar thermal power including three parts of collector, chimney and turbine, which is able to produce electrical energy. One of the effective parameters in increasing the power production is the collector angles versus horizon. In the present study, a numerical analysis of a solar chimney power plant for different angles of the collector (divergent...

This paper describes the application of a non-linear adaptive constrained model-based predictive control scheme to the distributed collector field of a solar power plant at the Plataforma Solar de Almería (Spain). This methodology takes advantage of the intrinsic non-linear modelling capabilities of non-linear state-space neural networks and of their online training by means of an unscented Kal...