One of the research and development efforts in the Solar Thermal Energy Systems Project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been focused on application of ceramic components for advanced point-focus solar receivers. The impetus for this effort is a need for high efficiency, low cost solar receivers which operate in a temperature regime where use of metal components is impractical. The current status of the work on evaluation of ceramic components at JPL and elsewhere is outlined and areas where lack of knowledge is currently slowing application of ceramics are discussed. Future developments of ceramic processing technology and reliability assurance methodology should open up applications for the point-focus solar concentrator system in fuels and chemicals production, in thermochemical energy transport and storage, in detoxification of hazardous materials and in high temperature process heat as well as for electric power generation. (DePo)


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    Title :

    Use of ceramics in point-focus solar vehicles


    Additional title:

    Anwendung von keramischen Stoffen fuer Brennpunktkollektoren sonnenenergiebetriebener Fahrzeuge


    Contributors:
    Smoak, R.H. (author) / Kudirka, A.A. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1981


    Size :

    9 Seiten, 7 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 16 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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