Optical properties of the heliostats installed in central receiver power systems are sometimes different from the design specification to various extent, impacting mostly the reflecting surface curvatures and normal directions. For large area heliostats or heliostats close to the central receiver, such deviations may result in substantial degradation of heliostat field optical performance and cannot be corrected easily. This paper proposed an efficient and systematic approach to account for heliostat optical parameter deviations by post-installation heliostat flux distribution measurements and optical models to obtain effective focal length and orientation angles of each heliostats as an equivalent simulation model for more accurate description for the optical performance. The parameter identification is formulated as an optimization problem solved by genetic algorithm minimizing the difference of each flux value between the calculated flux distribution obtained by Solstice tool and the measured flux distribution analyzed by photographed spot image. The heliostat field aiming strategy is optimized based on those identified effective parameters. The experiment results showed the optimized aiming strategy based on identified parameters yeilded better performance than that with designed parameters.
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11 December 2020
SOLARPACES 2019: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems
1–4 October 2019
Daegu, South Korea
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December 11 2020
Post-installation heliostat field aiming strategy optimization based on heliostat flux distribution measurements
Ruidi Zhu;
Ruidi Zhu
1
College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University
. Address: 38 Zheda Rd, Xihu District, Hangzhou, P.R. China
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Dong Ni;
Dong Ni
a)
1
College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University
. Address: 38 Zheda Rd, Xihu District, Hangzhou, P.R. China
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Tianfeng Yang;
Tianfeng Yang
2
State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University
. Address: 38 Zheda Rd, Xihu District, Hangzhou, P.R. China
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Jiamin Yang;
Jiamin Yang
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State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University
. Address: 38 Zheda Rd, Xihu District, Hangzhou, P.R. China
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Jinli Chen;
Jinli Chen
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State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University
. Address: 38 Zheda Rd, Xihu District, Hangzhou, P.R. China
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Gang Xiao
Gang Xiao
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State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University
. Address: 38 Zheda Rd, Xihu District, Hangzhou, P.R. China
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AIP Conf. Proc. 2303, 030038 (2020)
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Ruidi Zhu, Dong Ni, Tianfeng Yang, Jiamin Yang, Jinli Chen, Gang Xiao; Post-installation heliostat field aiming strategy optimization based on heliostat flux distribution measurements. AIP Conf. Proc. 11 December 2020; 2303 (1): 030038. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0028541
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