Abstract
The Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) has modeled seven of the Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored solar Industrial Process Heat (IPH) field experiments and has generated thermal performance predictions for each project. Additionally, these performance predictions have been compared with actual performance measurements taken at the projects. Predictions were generated using SOLIPH, anhour-by-hour computer code with the capability for modeling many types of solar PH components and system configurations. Comparisons of reported and predicted performance resulted in good agreement when the field test reliability and availability was high. Volume I contains the main body of the work; objective model description, site configurations, model results, data comparisons, and summary.Volume II contains complete performance prediction results (tabular and graphic. output) and computer program listings.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 123 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1984 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/TR-253-2161
Keywords
- computerized simulation
- forecasting
- performance
- process heat
- solar collectors
- solar process heat