We address the optimal design of central tower-concentrated solar power (CSP) system
combined with supercritical CO 2 Brayton cycle and thermal storage under economic and …

Solar Tower (ST) systems use heliostats to concentrate solar radiation onto a tower-mounted
receiver. Optimizing the aiming strategy for these heliostats over the receiver remains a …

High incident flux gradients and hot spots lead to extreme thermal stresses that may damage
and reduce the lifetime of central receivers. An aiming strategy based on a single parameter …

A novel 15 kW reactor for the hybridization of concentrated solar and conventional electric
heat was fabricated for renewable and continuous chemical processing at temperatures up …

Aiming strategies in central receiver systems search for an optimal assignment between
heliostats and aim point on the receiver surface. In this work, we develop an accelerated …

Due to modeling errors and disturbances caused by clouds, Solar Power Tower (SPT) plants
consider high safety margins during operation leading to a significant loss of revenues. This …

In solar tower power plants, aim point optimization is suitable to find aim point distributions
resulting in intercept powers close to the theoretical maximum. However, the application in …

The heliostat field aiming strategy optimization is a crucial topic in solar power tower (SPT)
plants. The optimal aiming strategy attempts to maximize the thermal power output while …

In a solar power tower plant, the role of the heliostat aiming strategy is to control the radiative
flux distribution at the receiver surface to avoid thermally induced damage, while minimising …

Many procedures have been developed to design and optimize a heliostat field, however it
is a rather challenging work partly because many influencing factors of a heliostat optical …