Published September 27, 2021 | Version v1

Thermal losses characterization for the receiver of the SunDial, the rotary Fresnel collector

  • 1. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
  • 2. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
  • 3. Analisis-DSC

Description

This study is focused on characterizing heat losses at the solar receiver of the ASTEP project, the SunDial. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations were performed to predict the thermal losses from the external surface of the receiver.

Files

ASTEP_SolarPACES2021_ThermalLossesCFD_UNED_2021(Abstract).pdf

Additional details

Funding

European Commission
ASTEP - Application of Solar Thermal Energy to Processes 884411