PowerDish and IBM solar collector

is it possible to model PowerDish or the IBM solar collector with SAM?

below are website that reference the differnt systems.

www.qnergy.com 

www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/ibm-solar-collector-magnifies-sun-2000x-without-cooking-itself.html 

if SAM is no capable of doing this type of calculation, what other software would you recommend that has the capability of modeiling these types of technologies?

Thankyou for your time and assitance with this issue.

Enrique Mora

Dear Enrique,

From the information in the links you provided, it looks like SAM's dish Stirling model would be appropriate for the Infinia PowerDish, but not for the IBM solar dish. The IBM system uses a dish-shaped collector to focus light on a PV cell, and generates both heat for a thermal application and electricity.

SAM's dish Stirling model is somewhat limited in that it requires parameters like a set of Beale curve-fit coefficients for the Stirling engine, which may not be readily available.

I am not aware of a different model to model these types of systems.

Best regards,
Paul.