Research Article
Modeling of Drift Effects on Solar Tower Concentrated Flux Distributions
Table 1
Comparative of peak fluxes and average fluxes of analytical method using Matlab and Monte Carlo method by using SolTrace.
| Heliostat ,
coordinates
(m) | Peak flux
MC (W/m2) | Peak flux
approx. (W/m2) | Difference
(%) | Average
flux MC
(W/m2) | Average flux
approx. (W/m2) | Difference
(%) |
| | (−6.8, 27.5) | 6936 | 6946 | 0.14 | 410.0 | 410.1 | 0.04 | | (15.9, 30.2) | 5674 | 5581 | 1.65 | 401.7 | 401.8 | 0.04 | | (0, 34.1) | 6288 | 6260 | 0.44 | 400.6 | 401.8 | 0.28 | | (0, 49.9) | 4213 | 4169 | 1.05 | 383.7 | 383.5 | 0.04 | | (8.1, 56.3) | 3513 | 3464 | 1.41 | 377.4 | 377.3 | 0.02 | | (14.2, 66.7) | 2701 | 2616 | 0.77 | 367.9 | 368.6 | 0.19 | | (0, 88.5) | 1765 | 1716 | 2.78 | 354.9 | 354.1 | 0.27 | | (−67.5, 167.0) | 463 | 438 | 5.57 | 248.2 | 242.1 | 2.46 | | (−23.5, 205.7) | 379 | 361 | 4.73 | 223.4 | 218.4 | 2.25 | | (−7.8, 206.9) | 381 | 363 | 4.65 | 224.1 | 219.1 | 2.25 |
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