Computation of glint, glare, and solar irradiance distribution
| DWPI Title: Method for computing solar irradiance distribution of receiver in concentrating solar power system, involves causing processor to compute solar irradiance distribution over surface of entity that includes algorithm to compute set of values |
| Abstract: Described herein are technologies pertaining to computing the solar irradiance distribution on a surface of a receiver in a concentrating solar power system or glint/glare emitted from a reflective entity. At least one camera captures images of the Sun and the entity of interest, wherein the images have pluralities of pixels having respective pluralities of intensity values. Based upon the intensity values of the pixels in the respective images, the solar irradiance distribution on the surface of the entity or glint/glare corresponding to the entity is computed. |
| Use: Method for computing solar irradiance distribution of a receiver in a concentrating solar power system or a glint/glare emitted from a reflective entity on a surface. |
| Advantage: The method enables utilizing a browser to access a web-based service by a computing device, thus facilitating to perform a computation of the solar irradiance distribution across the surface of the entity and/or the glint and/or glare emitted from the entity, and hence increasing energy that is applied to a retina area. |
| Novelty: The method involves causing a processor to compute a solar irradiance distribution over a surface of an entity i.e. heliostat (208), captured in an electronic image of the entity that receives solar radiation based in a part upon a first set of values and a second set of values. The solar irradiance distribution over the surface of the entity has a set of computed irradiance values, which corresponds to a set of pixels and further includes an algorithm to compute the set of irradiance values. The entity is a receiver in a solar power system (200) and a parabolic trough and a dish collector. |
| Filed: 5/12/2011 |
| Application Number: US13106686A |
| Tech ID: SD 11722.0 |
| This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |
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