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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2014
Alstom Technology Ltd, Baden, CH;
Christopher J. Lech, Feeding Hills, MA (US);
Ronald Girard Payne, West Simsbury, CT (US);
John Tweedie, East Windsor, CT (US);
Gary Pashko, Ludlow, MA (US);
Apurba Kumar Das, Vernon, CT (US);
Lin Deng, Avon, CT (US);
David McGrane, Chicopee, MA (US);
Pedro Inigo, South Windsor, CT (US);
Rahul Jayant Terdalkar, East Windsor, CT (US);
ALSTOM Technology Ltd., Baden, CH;
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.