[工程科技]Project Title Low-Cost Inflatable-Support Heliostats to Enable Cost-Effective Large-Scale S.pdfVIP

FINAL TECHNICAL REPORT U.S. Department Of Energy Inventions Innovation Grant No. DE-FG36-01GO11023, A000 November 24, 2002 Project Title: Low-Cost Inflatable-Support Heliostats to Enable Cost-Effective Large-Scale Solar Thermal Power Project Period Covered: April 1, 2001 through August 31, 2002 (plus additional testing and Final Report after August 31, 2002) Contact Person Company: Dr. Mithra Sankrithi, President CEO RSV Invention Enterprises 17602 Bothell Way N.E. Lake Forest Park, WA 98155 U.S.A. Tel (206) 417-8936 Fax (206) 367-4180 Emailsankrithi @ Page 1 November 24, 2002 Executive Project Summary This proj ect is in the area of cost-reduction technology development for solar thermal powerplants. More specifically, this proj ect aimed to demonstrate the viability of low-cost inflatable-support heliostats to enable cost-effective large-scale solar thermal power. The approach taken in the proj ect was to start with some design trade studies; to then design a subscale prototype of a representative inflatable-support heliostat; and to then construct and test this prototype to accomplish the proj ect obj ectives. All these tasks were successfully accomplished, and this Final Report documents the technical details involved. The resulting prototype heliostat was also displayed to members of government, industry and academia at the “Solar 2002” National Solar Energy Conference in June 2002; and featured in the August 2002 edition of the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. The advanced low-cost heliostat technology which has been validated by this concept validation proj ect, is now ready for further development steps leading to commercialization. Page 2