Solar receiver configuration

US9719696B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ALSTOM Technology Ltd · CH

Inventors

• Christopher J. Lech · Feeding Hills, US
• Ronald G. Payne · West Simsbury, US
• John Tweedie · East Windsor, US
• Gary Pashko · Ludlow, US
• Apurba Das · Kanchinakote, IN
• Lin Deng · Avon, US
• David McGrane · Chicopee, US
• Pedro Inigo · South Windsor, US
• Rahul J. Terdalkar · East Windsor, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 12, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 1, 2017
• Expiry date: Jun 20, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/44
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A solar receiver configuration (receiver) adapted to include a plurality of receiver heat transfer passes. Each pass includes a plurality of panels. Further, each panel includes a plurality of tubes, tangentially arranged, vertically extending between horizontally placed lower and upper headers. The headers, which are pipe assemblies with closed ends, of adjacent panels are horizontally and vertically offset one to another to form a substantially continuous tube surface. Such continuous tube surface enables solar heating of the fluid flow therefrom in at least a parallel flow arrangement and a serpentine flow arrangement.