A terrestrial solar thermal electric power system—Development of basic model system

A model system of a distributed collector power system was constructed at the Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tanashi, Tokyo, Japan in the summer of 1975. This model system consisted of a cylindrical parabolic concentrator, heat transfer loop and storage-type heat exchanger and has been used for evaluating the system performance and the dynamic characteristics of each subsystem and the whole system. This paper presents the performance of each subsystem used in the model system and summarizes results obtained from tests made on the whole system.