Thermal Scout Finds Trouble at Solar Plants: At a 20-megawatt concentrating solar power (CSP) plant, some 10,00...

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Thermal Scout Finds Trouble at Solar Plants: At a 20-megawatt concentrating solar power (CSP) plant, some 10,00...

Yet, operators don't have a good sense for which among the 10,000 tubes may have an air leak, or a hydrogen leak, or have been shattered by a flung rock. The best they can do is look at the entire output and roughly guess that if the plant seems to be operating, say, 4% under capacity, it may have about 400 bad tubes. The only alternative is to laboriously check each tube by hand, an odyssey that can take months. Now, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has available for license a device called Thermal Scout that can identify and analyze bad receiver tubes as fast as a car or truck can rumble down the rows of mirrors at a CSP plant. Thermal Scout combines a global positioning system (GPS) on the roof of a car, an infrared camera in the back seat, and some sophisticated software that tracks and analyzes in real time. All the dri...

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