I am thinking about working on solar furnace with heliostats that concentrate sunlight and heat molten salt, but currently no luck with research. Not a lot of papers based on the subject. (check out solar furnace at Odeillo). My group wants to work on something like that, with max temperature to be around 800-1000 deg Celsius.
Dear Sandeep San
I would like to pay your attention to the book titled Energy by Fricke et al: https://www.osti.gov/etdeweb/biblio/5816597
It contains a chapter about solar concentrators.
You can refer also to this paper which treats solar concentrators with high concentration ratio: Article A >3000 suns high concentrator photovoltaic design based on ...
In addition to solar radiation concentration you have to control the heat losses from the furnace.
Best wishes
It's too rare that a author does all calculations in a research paper. Try finding a thesis, you might find calculations there. Try searching in engines like ProQuest etc
Dear Sandeep San
I would like to pay your attention to the book titled Energy by Fricke et al: https://www.osti.gov/etdeweb/biblio/5816597
It contains a chapter about solar concentrators.
You can refer also to this paper which treats solar concentrators with high concentration ratio: Article A >3000 suns high concentrator photovoltaic design based on ...
In addition to solar radiation concentration you have to control the heat losses from the furnace.
Best wishes
Dear Sandeep San thank you for this interesting technical question. In addition to the valuable references provided by Abdelhalim abdelnaby Zekry please also see the following potentially useful articles entitled
1.Determination of key parameters for sizing the heliostat field and thermal energy storage in solar tower power plants
Article Determination of key parameters for sizing the heliostat fie...
This article is freely available as public full text on RG.
2. Review of the Molten Salt Electric Experiment: A Solar Central Receiver Project
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7038649
(see attached pdf file)
Dear Sandeep:
You can benefit from this valuable research ....
HIGH EFFICIENCY SOLAR FURNACE CORE.
Dr. Stephen C. Bates
Funded by NASA MSFC Contract # NNM05AA41C
at this URL:
http://www.tvu.com/PSolarFurn.html.
I hope it'll be helpful.
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