A new concept of terrestrial, environmentally friendly solar cogeneration system is described. Power generation is accomplished by a cascaded system with the high temperature stage being a Cs-Ba thermionic converter. Its heating is accomplished by a two-stage solar concentrator with a mirror and focon. Thermal efficiency of such a system is close to 100% because all the heat supplied to the heat receiver is utilized.
Terrestrial solar power system based on Cs-Ba thermionic converter
Space technology and applications international forum -1999 ; 1999 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 458 , 1 ; 1408-1412
1999-01-22
5 pages
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Terrestrial Solar Power System Based on Cs-Ba Thermionic Converter
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