Abengoa Solar New Technologies, S.a.

Iñigo Salinas Áriz

Rafael Alonso Esteban

Francisco Villuendas Yuste

Carlos Heras Vila

David Izquierdo Núñez

Noelia Martínez Sanz

Santiago Forcada Pardo

Marta Mainar López

Jesús Gómez Polo

Alberto Gimeno Melendo

Javier Asensio Pérez-Ullivarri

The invention relates to a portable reflectometer and to a method for characterizing the collector mirrors used in solar power plants for the in-field characterization of reflection coefficients. The equipment includes all of the components required for this measurement, such as a module to measure the reflection coefficient of the mirror, an electronic data acquisition and processing system, a system for processing data and controlling the equipment, a system for storing the data of interest, a user interface system, and a system allowing communication between the aforementioned systems and an outer casing. The equipment can be used to characterize the specular reflection coefficient of flat or curved mirrors of different thicknesses, without requiring adjustments to be made to the equipment, minimizing the influence of diffuse reflection on the measurement.

Portable reflectometer and method for characterising the mirrors of solar thermal power plants

The invention relates to a spectrophotometer for the automated optical characterization of solar collector tubes and to a method for the operation thereof, that measures the coefficient of transmission of the glass tube and of reflection of the metal tube. The device includes all the necessary components for taking said measurement, such as the optical bench supporting the tube, the standard or framework, and the optical modules for the device, a main module that generates the light bundles, a measuring module that measures the coefficient of transmission of the outer glass tube and the coefficient of reflection of the inner metal tube, a mechanical system of tube rotation, an electronic system of data acquisition and processing, an external computer for controlling the device and processing the data measured, and a system of communication between the device and the computer.

Spectrophotometer for the automated optical characterization of solar collector tubes and method for the operation thereof

Portable spectrophotometer and method for characterizing solar collector tubes for simultaneously and on-field characterizing reflection and transmission coefficients. This device includes all the components needed to take this measurement, such as a module that takes the measurement of the reflection coefficient (R) of the inner tube (), a module that takes the measurement of transmission coefficient (T) of the outer tube (), an electronic data acquisition and processing system (), an external computer () for controlling the device and sending the measured data () and a communication system () between device and the computer ().

Portable spectrophotometer and method for characterising solar collector tubes

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Saragossa, Spain

Iñigo Salinas Áriz