STERG Quarterly meeting agenda – 5 December 2013, 10h00 to 12h00, M306
Research (40-60min)
SASEC dry run opportunity
a.) A review of aiming strategies for Central Receivers – Anny Grobler (6min)
b.) The use of CFD for Heliostat Wind Load Analysis – Adhikar Hariram (6min)
c.) Comparison of different Layouts for a Combined Cycle CSP Plant – Lukas Heller (6min)
d.) Survey on Pressurized Air Receiver Development – Matti Lubkoll (6min)
e.) On selecting a method for Heliostat field layout optimization – Shanley Lutchman (6min)
f.) Identifying the optimum storage capacity for a 100MW CSP plant in SA – Kam Madaly (6min)
g.) Annular Solar Receiver Tube – Carel van der Merwe (6min)
h.) Replacing intermittent renewable capacity in the 2010 IRP with CSP: Effect on coal fired power station capacity factors in 2030 – Christina Auret (6min)
i.) Design and cost evaluation of 2m2 heliostat prototypes – James Larmuth (6min)
j.) On the development of an OpenFOAM solver to model two-phase horizontal flow in the receiver of a parabolic trough collector – Josefine Wilms (6min)
Coordination (40-60min)
1. Health and safety
2. Intros of new STERG members/ projects and developments since last meeting (10min)
Bastien Meznil
Sameer Hameer
Emaan Tora
3. Status of 2014 by Paul, Frank, others (20min)
4. Infrastructure and co-ordination update
a) STERG Ops – Matti(10min)
5. Opens and other topics
a) Publishing – Open discussion (10min)
Next meeting logistics 24 Jan 2014 (prelim date)