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JPL 5103 38; Report; November 1978.
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The primary goal of the Small Power Systems Application Project, Engineering experiment No. 1 is to identify suitable technological approaches for small community applications. Three contractors have been selected for Phase I of the experiment based upon their proposed system concepts in
A selection of one or more of these three concepts will be made for continuation of work through Phases II and III of the experiment which will be to design, fabricate and install a small solar thermal electric power plant in an actual user environment.
The primary goal of the Small Power Systems Application Project, Engineering experiment No. 1 is to identify suitable technological approaches for small community applications. Three contractors have been selected for Phase I of the experiment based upon their proposed system concepts in
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three categories of solar thermal electric power plants: central receiver; point focusing, distributed collector, central power conversion; and point focusing, distributed collector and power conversion. Each proposed concept describes a solar thermal electric power plant with a nominal rated power level of 1 MWe, a capacity factor 0.4, a thirty year life and a start-up time of 4.5 years. This report discusses the three selected proposals and some of the Phase I contractor work completed to date.A selection of one or more of these three concepts will be made for continuation of work through Phases II and III of the experiment which will be to design, fabricate and install a small solar thermal electric power plant in an actual user environment.
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