E. Carrizosa, C. Domínguez-Bravo, E. Fernández-Cara, M. Quero
Solar Power Tower (SPT) systems are known to be one of the most promising technologies for producing solar electricity.
An SPT system is here considered to consist of three main components: a tower, one or several receivers, and a field of rectangular mirrors (heliostats), possibly of different sizes.
Optimizing the heliostats locations is a nontrivial problem, due to the combination of different complicating ingredients: the problem is large in scale (many hundreds or thousands of heliostats are to be located), the objective function is of black-box type, highly nonconvex and hard to evaluate, and the constraints space is nonconvex to avoid heliostats
overlaps. In this talk, the state of the art will be reviewed, and numerical strategies recently developed by the team at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Seville will be described.
Keywords: Location of heliostats, Solar Power Tower Systems, Global Optimization
Scheduled
T3 Location 2
October 1, 2015 3:30 PM
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