Abstract
The authors' original concept of indirect solar flux mapping of a heliostat field measures CRD using a compact stationary array of moonlight illuminometers on the receiver aperture and a reference moonlight illuminometer on the dual-axis moon tracker. Two sets of moonlight concentration experiments (CCD camera + white target; concentrated lunar beam passing across the linear array of illuminators) were carried out on 63 heliostats at Badaling Solar Tower Power Plant in Beijing on a full moon night in 2018. How the sun and moon shapes differ for CRD as light sources on a solar dish is investigated. Solar/lunar CRDs are similar. Another lunar flux mapping model is also presented, allowing different moon shapes to estimate the solar CRD and contribute improvements in extrapolating measured lunar CRDs to a solar tower working with the real Sun by repeated smooth-filtering. In this paper, some unknown factors, effects, and improvements are carefully considered to enhance the CRD measurement accuracy of a solar tower power plant by using moonlight concentration.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
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