@inproceedings{f60c28fe4b1c4596af47f692c4b51c95,
title = "Effect of solar field aiming strategies on the fatigue life in molten salt external central receivers",
abstract = "The influence of two operations modes in the solar field of a molten-salt power plant was investigated to evaluate how the receiver pipes' fatigue life changes. Temporal and spatial DNI variation from the WobaS system were integrated with STRAL to obtain the energy flux that heats the working fluid. The temperature distribution over the pipe was obtained by solving a steady-state 3D partial differential equation, validated with a literature model with a 0.1\% deviation. The fatigue analysis is based on the elastic behavior assumption. So, the rainflow counting methodology was implemented to consider the irregular sets of equivalent stresses the receiver pipe faced over the transient period. An estimation of the cycles to failure was obtained, and neither operation mode caused fatigue failure before 106 cycles. Still, the controlled aiming point strategy was able to gain an average of 378 MWth over the Solar Two operation mode, where the molten salt would be redirected to the cold tank.",
author = "Richard Rangel and David Acosta and Jes{\'u}s Garc{\'i}a and Marco Sanjuan and Rodrigo Barraza and Habib Zambrano",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Author(s).; 26th International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2020 ; Conference date: 28-09-2020 Through 02-10-2020",
year = "2022",
month = may,
day = "12",
doi = "10.1063/5.0085673",
language = "English",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
editor = "Christoph Richter and Avi Shultz",
booktitle = "SolarPACES 2020 - 26th International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems",
}