Members of the ESOL were among the approximately 400 attendees at the SolarPACES 2022 conference in Albuquerque, NM. Dr. Wagner’s group submitted and presented four technical papers covering research advances in solar power plant simulation and development of a power-hardware-in-the-loop testbed. Conference activities included a tour of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) at Sandia National Lab, and the group toured the Brayton test facility which is conducting advanced research on supercritical carbon dioxide cycle components. Dr. Wagner was elected to lead the SolarPACES Task 1 working group, which consists of 150+ international stakeholders in the concentrating solar modeling and simulation community.
Conference papers:
- M. Mullin, Michael J. Wagner. “A method for projecting cloud shadows onto a central receiver field to predict receiver damage.” Proceedings of the SolarPACES 2022 International Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, USA, September, 2022.
- M.J. Tuman, Michael J. Wagner. “Informed Feature Selection for Data Clustering of CSP Plant Production.” Proceedings of the SolarPACES 2022 International Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, USA, September, 2022.
- J. Wenner, B.B. Bates, Michael J. Wagner. “Development of a PHIL Real-Time Simulation Testbed for Optimization of Hybrid Power Plant Generation.” Proceedings of the SolarPACES 2022 International Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, USA, September, 2022.
- B.T. White, B. Lindley, Michael J. Wagner. “Thermodynamic Modeling of a Supercritical Steam-Rankine Cycle for an Integrated CSP-Nuclear System.” Proceedings of the SolarPACES 2022 International Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, USA, September, 2022.