The verification involves six optical modelling tools in Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) research, including: SolTrace, Tonatiuh, Tracer, Solstice, Heliosim and SolarPILOT. Three rounds of tests were progressed to compare and verify the results from these six tools.
The details are recorded and shared in this Github repository for people who are interested. The content includs:
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Case details:
- Description of the test cases
- Parameters
- Heliosatat field in the Round 3 tests
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Results:
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A summary of all the agreed results (taken from the average value of Tonatiuh, Tracer, Solstice, Soltrace and Heliosiom, with the errors representing the confidence interval which follows the 3 sigma rule)
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Data files from each tool for each case
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Figures and comparison
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Tracer script
- master.py: the script of running Tracer for all the test cases
- run.py: the script of running Tracer for an individual case
- postprocs.py: the script of postprocessing results, for comparison with other tools
- plots: includes all the scripts for generating the comparison figures
The co-authors are:
- Ye Wang, Charles-Alexis Asselineau, John Pye from the Australian National University (ANU)
- Daniel Potter, Clotilde Corsi, Jin-soo Kim from CSIRO Energy, Newcastle, Australia
- Manuel Blanco from Energy, Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC), The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
- Michael Wagner from National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
- Cyril Caliot from Processes, Materials and Solar Energy Laboratory, PROMES, CNRS, Font-Romeu-Odeillo, France
- Benjamin Piaud from Méso-Star Company, Toulouse, France
The title of the paper is: Verification of Optical Modeling of Sunshape and Surface Slope Error for Concentrating Solar Power Systems It is about to be submitted to Solar Energy.