paul-scott

I've created a concentrator model that can be off-steered 063c71dd98b3939565e02460171cc0149a6749e5. You can specify a rate of change which indicates what fraction of mirrors can move on/off sun per second. The...

So far it is just one piece. We still need to develop the control. The controller can read things like the level of the hot water tank, the sun intensity,...

Remember to set weather file start time to 1800 while comparing.

The difference in P_elec was due to the use of the dry vs wet bulb temperatures in the power block deratings. When SAM is changed to dry they match (start...

In addition to making the polynomial representation of these deratings more general, I also used the total radiant energy incident on the receiver instead of the irradiance. I assume $I_{bn}$...

Another difference is that the receiver thermal loss fraction is relative to the receiver incidence design value, and not the receiver output design value. This is more natural, because it...

The biggest difference appears to originate back in the "Field thermal power incident (MWt)" value. I would have expected this to be I_dni \* A_field, but it is consistently 2.73%...

As far as I know these don't exist. There are a "Cleanliness Factor" and a "General optical derate", but both of these are set to 1. This extra amount of...

This is for the trough model, which uses a value of 0.071, so I assume that is just a coincidence. And it should be totally unrelated to the thermal loss....

See CombiTable2D source code for example.