Transmission models comparison

A radial stagger heliostat field is shown below with a total of 15000 heliostats of 2mx2m rectangular mirror surface each. The distance of the outer most heliostats in the field from the receiver is approximately 400m. For the same field, the flux analysis functionality as shown below was used for different atmospheric transmission models in order to evaluate the effect of the transmission model on the maximum power intercepted by the receiver.

The chart below shows a bar chart comparing the maximum power intercepted by the receiver as a function of the model used.