Alstom Technology Limited

General Electric Technology Gmbh

Gary Pashko

Rahul Jayant Terdalkar

Apurba Kumar Das

Pedro Israel Inigo

Abhinaya Joshi

Joseph W Quinn

Ronald Girard Payne

Christopher J Lech

David McGrane

John David McGrane

Michael M Clark

John Tweedie

Robert Derosa

Lin Deng

Pedro Inigo

A molten salt central receiver arrangement for transferring heat from panels to a molten salt that flows through the panels. A control device allows to change the condition of at least one of the panel arrangements of the molten salt central receiver arrangement depending on at least an operating parameter of at least one panel and/or depending on an environment signal that characterizes the actual or forecast available heat for the heat transfer to the molten salt. In normal operation passes, each having one or more panels, are connected in series such that molten salt flows in a serpentine or alternating way upward and downward through subsequent passes. In a parallel flow condition, molten salt may flow upward through all of the panels in parallel. In a drain condition, the molten salt is forced out of one or more panels and replaced by compressed air.

Molten salt central receiver arrangement and operating method

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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Ludlow, MA, United States of America

Gary Pashko