US20030183221A1 - Solar power plant - Google Patents
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- US20030183221A1 US20030183221A1 US10/311,780 US31178002A US2003183221A1 US 20030183221 A1 US20030183221 A1 US 20030183221A1 US 31178002 A US31178002 A US 31178002A US 2003183221 A1 US2003183221 A1 US 2003183221A1
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
- F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
- F24S50/00—Arrangements for controlling solar heat collectors
- F24S50/20—Arrangements for controlling solar heat collectors for tracking
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
- F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
- F24S23/00—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors
- F24S23/70—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors with reflectors
- F24S23/74—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors with reflectors with trough-shaped or cylindro-parabolic reflective surfaces
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
- F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
- F24S30/00—Arrangements for moving or orienting solar heat collector modules
- F24S30/20—Arrangements for moving or orienting solar heat collector modules for linear movement
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
- Y02E10/40—Solar thermal energy, e.g. solar towers
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
- Y02E10/40—Solar thermal energy, e.g. solar towers
- Y02E10/47—Mountings or tracking
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- the invention is related to solar-energy engineering and may be used in devices concentrating solar radiation.
- a version which is the closest to the invention is a solar power plant containing several concentrators fitted with drives, a system of Sun tracking and a unit of drives control ensuring a possibility of automatic orientation, and a fixedly attached radiation detector (SU 1141275 A 1, F24J 2/00, 1985).
- the invention is aimed at creating a solar power plant with structurally simple concentrator drive and Sun tracking system that would provide for efficient use of solar energy.
- the solution of the set task is achieved in such a way, that the solar power plant containing the radiation concentrator fitted with a drive, the system of Sun tracking with a control unit, and a fixedly attached radiation detector, according to the invention, the drive is made with a possibility of ensuring a straight-line reciprocating movement of the concentrator, and the concentrator is mirror-based with a cylindrical surface having a guide whose current radius value features a deviation from the average value corresponding to the circumradius of the circular cylinder guide by no more than ⁇ 10%, and the radiation detector—photoelectric converter, is located in the focal plane.
- the solar power plant would be made with several radiation concentrators with a fixedly located photoelectric converter placed in the focal plane of each of them, and the concentrators have a common drive ensuring their plane-parallel motion.
- Plane-parallel, straight-line motion of the concentrator determines the simplicity of the Sun tracking system drive and reliability of control of the solar power plant for the uniform and efficient guidance of solar beams reflected by the cylindrical surface of the concentrators to the stationary radiation detectors-photoelectric converters, and this, with a selected ratio of geometric parameters, raises the efficiency of direct conversion of solar energy into electric energy.
- FIG. 1 Shown in FIG. 1 is the schematic general view of the solar power plant.
- FIG. 2 shows schematic view of concentrator 1 .
- the solar power plant contains mirror-based cylindrical radiation concentrators 1 fitted with common drive 2 ensuring the possibility of straight-line reciprocating (plane-parallel) movement of concentrators 1 , the Sun tracking system with the control unit (not shown in the drawing), drive 2 and fixedly attached radiation detectors made in the form of photoelectric converters 3 installed in the focal plane.
- the solar power plant is characterized by the following ratio of geometrical characteristics:
- R average value of the guide radius corresponding to the circumradius—circular cylinder guide
- R i current value of the guide radius of concentrator cylindrical surface
- the solar power plant operates in the following way.
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Abstract
The solar power plant contains the radiation concentrator fitted with a drive, the system of Sun tracking with a control unit, and a fixedly attached radiation detector, and the drive is made with a possibility of ensuring a straight-line reciprocating movement of the concentrator, and the concentrator is mirror-based with a cylindrical surface having a guide whose current radius value features a deviation from the average value corresponding to the circumradius of the circular cylinder guide by no more than ±10%, and the radiation detector—photoelectric converter, is located in the focal plane.
Description
- The invention is related to solar-energy engineering and may be used in devices concentrating solar radiation.
- There are known solar power plants that contain a mirror-based concentrator of solar energy in which focus there is a radiation detector made in the form of a heat exchanger (SU 1190154 A 1, F24J 1/100, 1985), photoelectric or thermo-emission converter (SU 1274032 F 1, H01L 31/00, 1987; SU 1825071 A 1, F24J 2/00, 1996)
- The main drawback of this approach, even with a concentrator made rotatable for orienting it towards the Sun, is low efficiency of using solar energy.
- A version which is the closest to the invention is a solar power plant containing several concentrators fitted with drives, a system of Sun tracking and a unit of drives control ensuring a possibility of automatic orientation, and a fixedly attached radiation detector (SU 1141275 A 1, F24J 2/00, 1985).
- However the system of Sun tracking is rather complicated and expensive, making economically unreasonable the use of such installation in the national economy.
- The invention is aimed at creating a solar power plant with structurally simple concentrator drive and Sun tracking system that would provide for efficient use of solar energy.
- The solution of the set task is achieved in such a way, that the solar power plant containing the radiation concentrator fitted with a drive, the system of Sun tracking with a control unit, and a fixedly attached radiation detector, according to the invention, the drive is made with a possibility of ensuring a straight-line reciprocating movement of the concentrator, and the concentrator is mirror-based with a cylindrical surface having a guide whose current radius value features a deviation from the average value corresponding to the circumradius of the circular cylinder guide by no more than ±10%, and the radiation detector—photoelectric converter, is located in the focal plane.
- It is preferable that the solar power plant would be made with several radiation concentrators with a fixedly located photoelectric converter placed in the focal plane of each of them, and the concentrators have a common drive ensuring their plane-parallel motion.
- Plane-parallel, straight-line motion of the concentrator determines the simplicity of the Sun tracking system drive and reliability of control of the solar power plant for the uniform and efficient guidance of solar beams reflected by the cylindrical surface of the concentrators to the stationary radiation detectors-photoelectric converters, and this, with a selected ratio of geometric parameters, raises the efficiency of direct conversion of solar energy into electric energy.
- Shown in FIG. 1 is the schematic general view of the solar power plant.
- FIG. 2 shows schematic view of
concentrator 1. - The solar power plant contains mirror-based
cylindrical radiation concentrators 1 fitted withcommon drive 2 ensuring the possibility of straight-line reciprocating (plane-parallel) movement ofconcentrators 1, the Sun tracking system with the control unit (not shown in the drawing), drive 2 and fixedly attached radiation detectors made in the form ofphotoelectric converters 3 installed in the focal plane. - In this case the solar power plant is characterized by the following ratio of geometrical characteristics:
- 1,1 R k ≧R i≧0.9R k;
- L=0.5 R k,
- where:
- R—average value of the guide radius corresponding to the circumradius—circular cylinder guide;
- Ri—current value of the guide radius of concentrator cylindrical surface;
- L—distance from the plane of the photoelectric converter to the concentrator cylindrical surface.
- The solar power plant operates in the following way.
- Solar beams reflected by mirror-based
concentrators 1 fall onphotoelectric converters 3 in which direct conversion of light energy into electric energy occurs. In the course of orientation to the Sun the tracking system, as it operatesdrive 2, realizes such unidimensional (straight-line, plane-parallel) movement of mirror-based concentrators 1 (shown by a dotted line in the drawing) under which the reflected solar beams due to a selected combination of the shapes ofconcentrators 1 and location of radiation detectors are constantly directed and uniformly distributed over the working surface ofphotoelectric converters 3 which, with a structural simplicity ofdrive 2 and tracking system, does ensure the efficiency of the use of the solar power plant for direct conversion of solar energy to electric one even withconcentrators 1 surfaces made with a preset deviation from the circular cylinder.
Claims (2)
1. A solar power plant containing the radiation concentrator fitted with a drive, the system of Sun tracking with a control unit, and a fixedly attached radiation detector, which is characterized by that the drive is made with a possibility of ensuring a straight-line reciprocating movement of the concentrator, and the concentrator is mirror-based with a cylindrical surface having a guide whose current radius value features a deviation from the average value corresponding to the circumradius of the circular cylinder guide by no more than ±10%, and the radiation detector-photoelectric converter, is located in the focal plane.
2. A solar power plant according to claim 1 characterized by that it is made with several radiation concentrators with a fixedly located photoelectric converter placed in the focal plane of each of them, and the concentrators have a common drive ensuring their plane-parallel movement.
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