5results about "Solar heat simulation/prediction" patented technology

A concentrated solar power plant comprising a plurality of heliostats or heliostat field, a substantially cylindrical solar energy receiver (2), consisting of a molten salt solar receiver, located atop a central tower (1) and having an external surface covered with receiver panels (8), the heliostats reflecting solar energy to said external surface of the receiver (2), each receiver panel (8) comprising a plurality of heat exchanger tubes (9) for transporting a heat transfer fluid being a molten salt, which are partly exposed on the external surface of the receiver and comprising a thermo-mechanical monitoring system to ensure the integrity of the solar receiver panel tubes in different operation phases ; wherein, using the tube emittance ε obtained from the measurements of the external surface of the receiver obtained from the infrared cameras and the salt temperature in the tubes obtained from the thermocouples during circulation mode, and the atmospheric transmittance τ obtained from the measurements of the weather data, the monitoring system is configured to calibrate the raw temperature measurements Traw acquired by the infrared cameras (4), so as to obtain calibrated temperatures Tcam.

The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for optimizing the design of a photovoltaic power plant comprising a structure mounted on a support, a plurality of power generation units connected to said structure, each power generation unit being designed to change its orientation relative to the sun in order to optimize its power production at all times, said power generation units being connected to control means for controlling said orientation. Abstract: Figure 3

A method for the customized production of at least one photovoltaic panel, wherein the method comprises the following steps: entering input data into a prediction module, wherein the input data comprising at least one of panel design characteristics, operational limits, desired panel characteristics, material characteristics, predicting predicted panel characteristics and / or predicted production parameters using the prediction module based on the input data, customized production of the at least one photovoltaic panel based on the input data, recording actual panel characteristics and / or actual production parameters of the at least one photovoltaic panel during or after its production, updating the prediction module based on one or more panel differences between the actual panel characteristics and the predicted panel characteristics, and / or one or more production differences between the actual production parameters and the predicted production parameters.

The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for optimizing the design of a photovoltaic power plant comprising a structure positioned on a support, a plurality of electricity production units connected to said structure, each of the electricity production units being designed to modify its orientation relative to the sun in order to optimize its electricity production at all times, said electricity production units being connected to control means enabling control of said orientation.