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Heliostat field graph

  • alsagria1
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05 Mar 2018 15:34 #6090 by alsagria1
Heliostat field graph was created by alsagria1
Good morning.

I have seen [Dr. Mike Wagner] youtube video explaining the molten salt solar tower model. He showed us a great Heliostat graph (see attachment)

I tried to get a graph like this in SAM but I couldn't.

Then I figured it out later that SOLARPILOT can do that!

Is there any way to couple SAM with SolarPolot?

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06 Mar 2018 00:16 #6091 by pgilman
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Hello,

SAM runs SolarPILOT for the heliostat optimization on the Heliostat Field page. SAM does not provide access to all of SolarPILOT's features.

You can run SolarPILOT as a separate application. For more about that, please see:

www.nrel.gov/csp/solarpilot-background.html

Best regards,
Paul.

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