The Iea/Ssps Solar Thermal Power Plants: -- Facts and Figures -- Final Report of the International Test and Evaluation Team (Itet): Volume 2: Distribu (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1. INTRODUCTION.- 2. DISTRIBUTED COLLECTOR SYSTEM.- 3. HISTORICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE SSPS-DCS PLANT PERFORMANCE - INTRODUCTION.- 3.1 DCS Global Long Term Performance.- 3.2 Input/Output Diagrams of the Solar Farm Systems.- 3.3 Evaluation of Field Performance.- 3.4 Comparison of MAN-E and MAN-W Field Behavior.- 3.5 System Simulation.- 4. SURVEY OF PLANT LOSSES - INTRODUCTION.- 4.1 Optical Losses.- 4.2 Thermal Losses of the Collector Fields.- 4.3 Study of the DCS Thermal Energy Storage Tank.- 4.4 Losses and Performance of the Power Conversion System.- 4.5 DCS Internal Electrical Consumption.- 5. POSSIBILITY OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL - INTRODUCTION.- 5.1 Temperature Regulation.- 5.2 Adaptive Control of the One-Axis Tracking Collector Field.- 6. RELIABILITY - AVAILABILITY - MAINTENANCE - INTRODUCTION.- 6.1 DCS Operational and Maintenance Experiences.- 6.2 Maintenance, Reliability, Availability.- 6.3 Collector Field Maintenance: Distributed Solar Thermal Systems.- 6.4 Mirrow Delamination.- 7. POTENTIAL FOR IMPROVEMENTS.- 7.1 Impact of DCS Improvements.- 7.2 Collector Fields: Potential for Improvements.- 8. APPENDICES.- 8.1 SSPS-DCS Bibliography.- 8.2 Solar Terminology.- 8.3 Abbreviations.- 8.4 Conversion Tables.- 8.5 Contents of Volumes I, II, III.