The Optimal Parameter Selection of Heliostat Field
In the optimal parameter selection problem of the heliostat field,the heliostat surfaces are discretely divided using rasterizing method,and the shadow efficiency and truncation efficiency are solved to calculate the annual average output thermal power of the heliostat field.A single-objective optimization model is established,and the control variable method is used to analyze the height of heliostat surface,spacing between adjacent heliostats and other variables separately in order to reduce the huge dimension of solution space.By trial calculation,the curves of the annual average output thermal power of the heliostat field with respect to each variable are obtained.The extreme points of the curves are searched using methods such as 0.618 method,and the approximately optimal parameters of the heliostat field are obtained.