We will be performing a major infrastructure and web site ugprades on Friday, September 27th 8:00 am - 5:00 pm MST (UTC -7).

The website will be down during that time.

System Advisor Model (SAM)

Collector heat removal factor

Start
Prev
1
Next
End

thilina fdo
Topic Author

01 Dec 2017 05:13 #5917 by thilina fdo

Collector heat removal factor was created by thilina fdo

NEED HELP!!!!
What is collector heat removal factor?
And does the SAM parabolic trough physical model has this factor?

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

pgilman

01 Dec 2017 17:09 #5918 by pgilman

Replied by pgilman on topic Collector heat removal factor

Hello,

That term may refer to the collector heat losses. For SAM's physical trough model, the heat loss parameters are defined on the Receivers (HCEs) input page. SAM reports the heat losses calculated during the simulation as "Field thermal power receiver loss (MWt)" and "Field thermal power avg. receiver loss (W/m)" in the time series results, which you can find on the Data Tables tab, Time Series tab and other tabs on the Results page.

Best regards,
Paul.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.