Method and apparatus for lightning protection in densely packed heliostat fields
US9594855B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 23, 2013 |
| Grant date | Mar 14, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 20, 2035 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02E10/47
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices for determining the placement of one or more lightning rods in one or more circles of non-interference in a solar field, where the placement is based on a determined location of one or more ungrounded triangular heliostat structures and one or more circles of interference, where the one or more circles of interference are areas within a range of motion of one or more heliostats disposed on corners of the one or more triangular heliostat structures in the solar field.
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