Hi,

Please use DIgSILENT POwer Factory and Please see this link:

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Hi Anastasia

IIT Bombay from India has a simulation model to analyse the Solar Thermal Power plants. Infact we are associated with them. You could contact Mr.Rajkumar Nehra on 91-9423173284 or Prof.Nayak on 91-9930404624. They would be a lot of help to you. Wishing you the very best.

Trnsys !!!

NREL has published the following "Heat Transfer Analysis and Modeling of a Parabolic Trough Solar Receiver Implemented in Engineering Equation Solver". It is not complete and there are a few things that don't run correctly, but it is a great starting point. You can find it here: http://www.nrel.gov/csp/troughnet/pubs_solar_field.html

Trnsys is the industry standard

Yes, trnsys

...or, in case of very little budget, EES

I've used EES, creating my progam as i wished.

But there is also trnsys

Honestly I had no information on simulators for solar application as I am not dealing with solar systems.Our good friends working in this field hv given good references.Thanks to our frofessional friends / community.

Anastasia, this is the article you want to read:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235784077_Hybrid_photovoltaicthermal_(PVT)_solar_systems_simulation_with_SimulinkMatlab

Article Hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) solar systems simulation ...

Hi,

Please use DIgSILENT POwer Factory and Please see this link:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Dear_All_is_DIgSILENT_PowerFactory_1413_a_free_or_is_demo_available_if_so_please_send_me_the_link

You can see also this link

http://www.uploadbaz.com/s5dewp9651st

https://file.scirp.org/pdf/JPEE_2016080214515092.pdf

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d57a/7bce01de41b5fe754b319c5771046be495fa.pdf

http://research3.fit.edu/nhc/documents/PECS.pdf