Improved Tubular Receivers for Point-focus Concentrators

A computational approach to simulate the optical and thermal performance of a novel complex geometry solar tower molten salt cavity receiver

“…Since then, commercial installations of external receivers have been implemented. Much research has been conducted to improve the external receiver design, which include: optimal dimensions and parameters (Lata, Rodriquez, & de Lara, 2008;Rodríguez-Sánchez M. , Sánchez-González, Marugán-Cruz, & Santana, 2014;Rodríguez-Sánchez M. , Sánchez-González, Acosta-Iborra, & Santana, 2017), analysis and minimization of thermal losses (Rodríguez-Sánchez, Soria-Verdugo, Almendros-Ibáñez, Rodríguez-Sanchez, Marugan-Cruz, Acosta-Iborra, & Santana, 2014;Pye, Zheng, Asselineau, & Coventry, 2014), coating materials (Joly, et al, 2013) and the selection of HTF (Pacio & Wetzel, 2013;Forsberg, Peterson, & Zhao, 2007;Singer, Buck, Pitz-Paal, & Müller-Steinhagen, 2010).…”