Swinburne
Browse

Design of a novel metal halide high intensity solar simulator for solar hybrid reactor design optimisation

Download (640.95 kB)
conference contribution
posted on 2024-07-09, 20:00 authored by Ben Ekman, Geoffrey BrooksGeoffrey Brooks
In this paper, the development of a novel high intensity solar simulator for testing a solar/electric hybrid reactor is described. To simulate the solar energy, an array of seven, 6000 W metal halide lamp/reflector modules, were arranged in a circular pattern. The metal halide lamp with its longer arc has a luminous flux range of 380,000 lm to 600,000 lm and an efficacy of 95 to 100 Lm/W, making the metal halide lamp more efficient in converting electrical power to light in this size range compared to Xenon lamp. In addition, metal halide operates at much lower pressures and have a protective encasing outer bulb for added protection. The arc source of the metal halide lamp and the lamp/reflector were modeled through ray tracing modeling using FRED optical software.

History

Available versions

PDF (Published version)

ISBN

9780987593023

Journal title

Proceedings of the 6th Annual High Temperature Processing Symposium 2014

Conference name

6th Annual High Temperature Processing Symposium 2014

Location

Melbourne

Start date

2014-02-03

End date

2014-02-04

Pagination

4 pp

Publisher

Swinburne University of Technology

Copyright statement

Copyright © 2014 Swinburne University of Technology.

Language

eng

Usage metrics

    Publications

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Keywords

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC