A novel approach to determine the non-dimensional heliostat field boundary for solar tower plants

A novel approach to determine the non-dimensional heliostat field boundary for solar tower plants.Solar tower technology has gained considerable momentum over the past decade. In a solar tower plant, the power collected by the heliostat field is strongly coupled to the height of the tower and its location with respect to the field. This paper provides a methodology to fix the boundary of the field (non-dimensionalised with respect to the tower height).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2016.08.001

(*Gopalakrishnan Srilakshmi is the other author of this paper.)