Alstom Technology Limited

General Electric Technology Gmbh

David McGrane

Apurba Kumar Das

Rahul Jayant Terdalkar

Ronald Girard Payne

Marco Simiano

Christopher J Lech

Pedro Israel Inigo

Gary Pashko

Erik Boschek

Xiao-Peng Gan

John Tweedie

Lin Deng

Pedro Inigo

A solar receiver, designed to use a heat transfer medium, includes a plurality of panels. Each panel is arranged and configured to enable the heat transfer medium to flow in at least one flow direction, one flow direction defining a pass, to obtain unique mass flux in each pass to optimize the heat flux capability of the pass while minimizing pressure drop across the selected passes of the heat transfer surface. A method thereof is also provided.

Solar receiver

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.

Solar receiver configuration

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