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Data collected during the measurement campaign in Fall 1982 were used to determine the thermal efficiency of the Sulzer receiver as a function of power into the cavity, time of day, and beam irradiance. At an insolation of 900 W/m, receiver efficiency of about 87% and thermal efficiency of about 60% were measured. The thermal efficiency over time of operation (8’50”) on a clear day (October 7, 1982) comes to 57%. Converting this value to the total day from sunrise to sunset (11’25”) by 8’50” of operation, one gets an average efficiency of 50%.
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Lemperle, G., Schiel, W. (1986). Efficiency and Temperature Measurements. In: Kesselring, P., Selvage, C.S. (eds) The IEA/SSPS Solar Thermal Power Plants — Facts and Figures— Final Report of the International Test and Evaluation Team (ITET). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82684-9_14
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