TY  - CONF
A1  - Caminos, Ricardo Alexander Chico
A1  - Schmitz, Pascal
A1  - Atti, Vikrama
A1  - Mahdi, Zahra
A1  - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José
A1  - Sattler, Johannes Christoph
A1  - Herrmann, Ulf
A1  - Hilger, Patrick
A1  - Dieckmann, Simon
T1  - Development of a micro heliostat and optical qualification assessment with a 3D laser scanning method
T2  - SOLARPACES 2020
N2  - The Solar-Institut Jülich (SIJ) and the companies Hilger GmbH and Heliokon GmbH from Germany have developed a small-scale cost-effective heliostat, called “micro heliostat”. Micro heliostats can be deployed in small-scale concentrated solar power (CSP) plants to concentrate the sun's radiation for electricity generation, space or domestic water heating or industrial process heat. In contrast to conventional heliostats, the special feature of a micro heliostat is that it consists of dozens of parallel-moving, interconnected, rotatable mirror facets. The mirror facets array is fixed inside a box-shaped module and is protected from weathering and wind forces by a transparent glass cover. The choice of the building materials for the box, tracking mechanism and mirrors is largely dependent on the selected production process and the intended application of the micro heliostat. Special attention was paid to the material of the tracking mechanism as this has a direct influence on the accuracy of the micro heliostat. The choice of materials for the mirror support structure and the tracking mechanism is made in favor of plastic molded parts. A qualification assessment method has been developed by the SIJ in which a 3D laser scanner is used in combination with a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). For the validation of this assessment method, a single mirror facet was scanned and the slope deviation was computed.
KW  - Concentrated solar power
KW  - Electricity generation
KW  - Measuring instruments
KW  - Heliostats
KW  - Global change
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.fh-aachen.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11085
SN  - 978-0-7354-4195-8
SN  - 1551-7616 (online)
SN  - 0094-243X (print)
N1  - 26th International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems
28 September–2 October 2020
Freiburg, Germany
IS  - 2445 / 1
PB  - AIP conference proceedings / American Institute of Physics
CY  - Melville, NY
ER  -