ALTERNATE CENTRAL RECEIVER POWER SYSTEM PROGRAM, PHASE II, MIDTERM TOPICAL REPORT

ABSTRACT:
We conducted a tradeoff study early in the Phase II program and showed that a four-cavity receiver is more cost effective than an exposed receiver for a commercial solar central receiver power system using molten salt. We then did another study to determine the best of five configurations

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for the receiver SRE to be tested at the Central Receiver Test Facility (CRTF) in Albuquerque, NM. We decided that a combined cavity-exposed receiver best met the criteria of ability to measure performance, simplicity, compatibility with CRTF, cost and schedule, risk in extrapolating results, and ability to provide comparative data between exposed and cavity receivers.

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