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Performing Organizations: Key Technical Contacts: DOE HQ Technology Manager: FY 2005 Budgets: Parabolic Trough R&D National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Henry Price (NREL, Primary Contact), 303-384-7437, henry_price@nrel.gov Doug Brosseau (SNL), 505-844-5218, dabross@sandia.gov Thomas Rueckert, 202-586-0942, thomas.rueckert@ee.doe.gov $1,645K (NREL), $580K (SNL) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Objectives • Support development of near-term parabolic trough technology for central station power generation. • Support development of advanced technologies for next-generation parabolic trough solar fields, thermal energy storage, and power plant technologies to meet long-term goals of the DOE Solar Program Multi-Year Technical Plan. • Support the expansion of U.S. industry to supply parabolic trough technology. • Support development of SunLab to support parabolic trough technology development and testing. Accomplishments • Construction of the first commercial parabolic trough plant in nearly 15 years neared completion at the end of FY 2005. The plant is being developed for Arizona Public Service (APS) by Solargenix Energy of Raleigh, North Carolina. It is a 1-MWe solar power plant using an organic Rankine power cycle provided by Ormat Technologies of Sparks, Nevada. The plant uses parabolic trough collector technology developed by Solargenix under a cost-shared R&D contract with DOE/NREL. Start-up of the plant is expected in early FY 2006. • Solargenix installed and optically tested its first full collector at its new Nevada test site. The collector design was further refined to reduce cost and simplify field assembly for the first commercial deployment at the APS parabolic trough power plant. • Two contracts were placed during FY 2005 from the FY 2004 USA Trough Initiative request for letters of interest (LOI). The first was to Solargenix for further optimization of its new parabolic trough concentrator. The second was to Industrial Solar Technology for the development of an advanced low-cost parabolic trough concentrator. • NREL continued development of a new selective coating that appears to meet the long-term selective property goals for parabolic trough receivers. The coating was simplified by further modeling and initial test samples of the new coating were produced on the NREL vacuum deposition system. • SNL completed testing of the new Schott receiver on an LS-2 collector installed on the National Solar Thermal Test Facility’s rotating platform. The receiver demonstrated about 30% lower thermal losses and a 5% improvement in optical efficiency versus the Luz cermet receiver tested in 1993. • The Video Scanning Hartmann Optical Test (VSHOT) instrument, used for measuring the slope error of a concentrator surface, was modified to improve the speed of field-testing trough concentrators. The VSHOT was used to test the Solargenix parabolic trough concentrator at the company’s Nevada collector test facility. • SNL completed concept development and feasibility assessment of a new field-deployable concentrator optical alignment tool. • NREL developed a new technique for evaluating receiver thermal performance in operating solar fields. This technique was used to help FPL Energy evaluate the condition of its solar fields, including a receiver hydrogen build-up phenomenon. Solar Thermal R&D 113 Concentrating Solar PowerPDF Image | DOE Solar Energy Technologies Program
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