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- 1. Annual water usage
- (General SAM How-To)
- Dear Prof. Dr. Paul, How are you? I hope you are fine and in good health. Thank you very much for your very valuable and useful explanations. With best regards. *** M. Ghodbane
- Created on 15 March 2022
- 2. Annual water usage
- (General SAM How-To)
- Hi Mohktar, For the Direct Steam Linear Fresnel and other CSP models, the water usage depends on 1) the mirror washing inputs on the Solar Field page, and 2) the condenser type for plant cooling on the ...
- Created on 15 March 2022
- 3. Annual water usage
- (General SAM How-To)
- Dear Professors, How are you all? I hope you are fine and in good health. I would like to ask you how to calculate the annual water usage in DSG Linear Fresnel power plants, as I have compared three ...
- Created on 14 March 2022
- 4. anual water usage CSP Parabolic trough a
- (General SAM How-To)
- I would like to know if the "annual water usage" presented in the simulation summary also considers the water used for washing the mirrors or only the water used for the wet cooling (for wet ...
- Created on 16 December 2020
- 5. Water consumption
- (General SAM How-To)
- Hi, (1) I am trying to understand how SAM calculates the annual water usage, which is reported under summary of the results (CSP physical trough). I am considering the sum of the hourly data for Cycle ...
- Created on 31 August 2019
- 6. PTC and LFR
- (General SAM How-To)
- ... in the result summary (other results like annual energy, gross to net conversion, capcity factor, and water usage were available). Do SAM automatically provide the value of plant efficiency or I need to ...
- Created on 09 November 2017
- 7. Annual water usage CSP
- (General SAM How-To)
- Dear Thomas, You are correct. Older versions of SAM reported an annual water usage value in cubic meters, but the current version of SAM only reports the hourly mass flow rate. We did not update the description ...
- Created on 04 March 2016
- 8. Annual water usage CSP
- (General SAM How-To)
- Hi NREL-Team, hi Paul, the help file outlines that SAM reports the 'annual water usage' for a CSP system including cooling and washing water usage. I cannot find this parameter in the SAM ...
- Created on 02 March 2016
- 9. Solar Water Heating negative results for
- (General SAM How-To)
- ... is obviously wrong as the 16 collectors produce an "Annual energy Saved" = 23,214 kWh and the 20 collectors produce an "Annual energy Saved" = 52,387 kWh. I greatly appreciate your ...
- Created on 08 July 2015
- 10. Incidence angle modifier coefficients
- (General SAM How-To)
- ... were remained without changing. Could you please say us why the difference between their "Annual energy" is big. ***** (CSP Linear Fresnel/Independent Power Producer) Solar position table Incidence ...
- Created on 23 May 2013
- 11. linear Fresnel annual electric output hi
- (General SAM How-To)
- ... dish-Stirling and linear Fresnel. I'm setting the design parameters as similarly as possible so I can compare the net annual electric output, water usage, land usage, capacity factor, etc. When ...
- Created on 25 September 2012
- 12. TM3 weather data errors - one year works
- (General SAM How-To)
- ... MISSING OUTPUT system.monthly.e_net MSG[2]: MISSING OUTPUT system.monthly.dcpower MSG[3]: MISSING OUTPUT system.monthly.inc_total MSG[4]: MISSING OUTPUT system.monthly.inc_beam MSG[5]: MISSING OUTPUT system.annual.incident_beam MSG[6]: ...
- Created on 05 July 2012
- 13. Simulation error, what next?
- (General SAM How-To)
- ... system.annual.incident_beam MSG[33]: MISSING OUTPUT system.annual.input_radiation MSG[34]: MISSING OUTPUT system.annual.dc_nominal MSG[35]: MISSING OUTPUT system.annual.dc_gross MSG[36]: MISSING OUTPUT ...
- Created on 07 May 2012
- 14. Failed Fresnel Simulation with external
- (General SAM How-To)
- ... = 0 msec ... DELETED LINES TO MAKE POST MORE READABLE - PG ... MSG[117]: MISSING OUTPUT system.annual.fuel_usage MSG[118]: MISSING OUTPUT system.annual.water_usage TRNSYS LOG FILE TRNSYS - the ...
- Created on 23 April 2012
- 15. Solar Hot Water Draw Units in Help
- (General SAM How-To)
- ... are correctly described in Help under "Hourly Hot Water Draw," and are correct in the user interface: Hourly hot water draw: kg/hour Average daily hot water usage: kg/day Total annual hot water ...
- Created on 05 January 2012
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