Hello,
I'm interested in getting the receiver hourly incident thermal power in PySAM since I'm working in my own receiver model. The solar field has heliostats on one side of the tower and a cavity receiver.
I tried with the
TcsmoltenSalt module and the output variable
q_dot_rec_inc (Receiver incident thermal power [MWt]), but I thinks this only works for large solar fields with external receiver, as mentioned
here
.
I also tried the
Tcsiscc module, but even though the receiver can be configured (
receiver_type: External=0, Cavity=1), I think the cavity receiver is no longer supported after having a look at the
C++ source code
since only the external receiver type is taken into account.
Any advice about how to get the receiver incident thermal power? No need for any other calculations, thanks.
Best,
Javier.