EP3586070A1 - Mirror unit transport device and method for assembling in a solar field - Google Patents
Mirror unit transport device and method for assembling in a solar fieldInfo
- Publication number
- EP3586070A1 EP3586070A1 EP17727788.6A EP17727788A EP3586070A1 EP 3586070 A1 EP3586070 A1 EP 3586070A1 EP 17727788 A EP17727788 A EP 17727788A EP 3586070 A1 EP3586070 A1 EP 3586070A1
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- Prior art keywords
- locking means
- mirror units
- mirror
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- end plate
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Classifications
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
- B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
- B65D71/0088—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
- F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
- F24S23/00—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors
- F24S23/70—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors with reflectors
- F24S23/77—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors with reflectors with flat reflective plates
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
- F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
- F24S80/00—Details, accessories or component parts of solar heat collectors not provided for in groups F24S10/00-F24S70/00
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
- F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
- F24S23/00—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors
- F24S23/70—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors with reflectors
- F24S2023/87—Reflectors layout
- F24S2023/872—Assemblies of spaced reflective elements on common support, e.g. Fresnel reflectors
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a transport device, comprising at least one end plate for attachment to a front side of a mirror unit, wherein the end plate has a first longitudinal edge with locking means and a second longitudinal edge with counter-locking means and the locking means of the first longitudinal edge with the counter-locking means of the second longitudinal edge of another , identical face plate cooperate, and a transport method for mirror units for mounting in a solar field.
- JP2004207667A is a transport device for photovoltaic elements, however, which are formed completely flat and have other transport characteristics as mirror units.
- the mirror units themselves have a housing, which may for example have a trapezoidal cross-section, which is expansive. This is necessary in order to avoid distortion of the mirrors, which would cause an inaccurate deflection of the incident sunlight. Due to this form of housing, it is more difficult to package the individual mirrors in order to package them for transport to a mounting location. On the one hand to protect the installed mirrors from damage which would affect the reflection and thus directly influence the energy yield of the power plant, but on the other hand to allow the best possible use of space during transport, it has hitherto been necessary, the mirror units individually or in small groups to pack and stack the individual packing units on each other, so that a transport is possible. The costs incurred for this transport material, such as wooden boxes and the like, must then be transported back from the installation again or is recycled on site. In addition to the material costs incurred in this respect must be added that the transport packaging must also be transported and their weight also causes considerable transport costs.
- the object of the present invention is to propose a transport device and a method for transporting mirror units, which reduces the transport costs for mirror units for mounting in a solar field, facilitates the handling of the mirror units at the same time and the waste arising in connection with the transport reduced.
- useful embodiments of the transport device can the dependent claims 2-6, useful embodiments of the method of the dependent claims -12 are taken.
- a transport device for mirror units comprises at least one end plate, which can be attached to an end face of a mirror unit.
- the end plate has a first longitudinal edge with latching means, and a second longitudinal edge with counter-locking means, so that the end plates can be stacked one above the other, the adjacent end plates are brought with their locking means or brought into contact with these counter-locking means in positive engagement or in frictional connection can.
- the latching means of the first longitudinal edge of the end plate comprise a return offset.
- This offset ensures that part of each mirror unit is not obscured by the face plate.
- this uncovered part of the front side of the mirror unit is of the counter-rastm term of the second longitudinal edge of an adjacent, identical face plate concealed, which preferably engages positively at this point.
- the face plate may have two edges with locking means, which allow a lateral connection with adjacent, similar face plates.
- the locking means can be designed with some advantage so that they interact with similar locking means of a preferably rotated by 180 ° end plate, so that it is possible to each arranged by 180 ° mirror units next to each other and to connect laterally.
- This alternating arrangement makes it possible, especially with a trapezoidal cross-section of the mirror units, to arrange them in an overlapping manner in order to achieve a further effect by saving space. As a result, more mirror units can be accommodated in the same space than if they were arranged next to one another in the same direction.
- the transport device may further comprise a base rail, which is placed directly on the ground and in which the bottom end plates can be used directly.
- the sisschiene a longitudinal slot in which the end plates are used with their longitudinal edges. This makes it possible to lift with the base rail a complete transport unit, without having to fear a disintegration of the transport unit, the end plates are protected in the longitudinal slot against slipping in the longitudinal direction of the mirror units.
- the base rail may be provided, in particular in the longitudinal slot of the base rail, at least one locking means and / or counter-locking means, which are modeled according to the locking means and counter-locking means of the longitudinal edges and these function accordingly.
- a locking means of a face plate can thus be inserted into a counter-locking means of the base rail, a counter-locking means of a face plate inversely into a locking means of the base rail.
- a secure recording of the lowest layer of mirror units is ensured within a transport unit.
- latching means and counter-latching means of the base rail in an alternating sequence, so that overlapping of the mirror units in the case of, for example, a trapezoidal-shaped overlap is also possible here
- At least one of the two base rails used for a transport unit can be assigned at least one rolling or sliding element, so that the entire transport unit can be moved by lifting the transport unit on one base rail opposite the rolling or sliding element on one side.
- the transport unit can be lifted with a truck on one side and then arbitrarily moved forward or backward to move the entire unit without raising it as a whole.
- Such assembled transport unit can thus be spent as a whole to the installation site and there again be resolved by means of a crane device.
- the individual mirror units are moved with some advantage directly from the transport unit down to a carrying device on which the mirror units are to be mounted.
- the respective mirror unit can be turned on the crane hanging around its axis of rotation so that it can be mounted with its mirror side up on the support device.
- the support device advantageously has a rail arrangement on which the mirror units can be moved along the support device. This makes it possible to settle the individual mirror units at one end of the support device and then to move over the rail assembly to its mounting position.
- the end plates are designed so that they can be moved in the rail assembly, so that the respective end plates are removed only at the mounting position, where the individual mirror units are attached to the carriers provided for this purpose.
- a separate slide can be provided for each mirror unit, which is ultimately fixed at the mounting position.
- FIG. 1 shows a detail of a mirror unit with a laterally mounted end plate in a perspective view obliquely from above
- FIG. 3 shows a transport unit in a lateral plan view of the end plates used there, wherein one of the end plates is hidden and the base rail is shown in a cross-sectional view
- Figure 4 shows a transport unit in a perspective view obliquely from above
- Figure 5 shows a transport unit at the installation when placing mirror units on a supporting device also shown in a solar field, in a perspective view obliquely from above.
- Figure 1 shows a mirror unit 1, which consists essentially of a housing with a trapezoidal cross-section and a mirror 2 attached thereto. Of the housing is only partially visible the front side 3, which protrudes beyond the edges of a front panel 3 attached to the end plate 10. This protruding is intended to achieve a support by adjacent end plates 19, wherein parts of the end plate 10 in turn protrude beyond the mirror unit 1 in order to allow contacting of adjacent mirror units in turn.
- the front plate 10 initially has a first longitudinal edge 1 1, which has a return offset 12 as a locking means.
- a second longitudinal edge 13 is provided, which has a corresponding counter-latching means 14 in the form of a projection which functions in shape as a counterpart to the latching means 12 at the first longitudinal edge 1 1.
- the end plate 10 is connected via a rotational fixing 16 with the mirror unit 1 and has a receptacle 15, in which a rotation axis for rotating the mirror unit 1 along its longitudinal axis can be arranged.
- FIG. 2 shows a base rail 20 into which a lowermost layer of mirror units 1 can be inserted. Two of these base rails 20 are placed offset parallel to each other for this purpose, wherein between them, the distance of the length of a mirror unit 1 is provided.
- the base rail 20 shown has visible counter-locking means 23, which engage in locking means 12 of it to be set end plates 10. Parts of the first longitudinal edge 1 1 are inserted into a longitudinal slot 21 of the base rail 20, while the counter-locking means 23 in the Engage latching means 12 and thus prevent displacement of the mirror unit 1 and the associated end plate 10 in the longitudinal direction of the longitudinal slot 21.
- FIG. 3 shows a possible transport unit 8 in which the illustrated base rail 20, which is shown only in a section along the longitudinal slot 21, is occupied by four mirror units arranged alternately side by side by 180 ° as the lowest layer.
- Each of the mirror units 1 inserted into the base rail 20 has three further mirror units 1 placed over it, wherein the end plates 10, 19 connected thereto are in a puzzle-like manner to form a wall of end plates 10, 19.
- one of the end plates 10 is hidden for better illustration, so that in this position the mutual position of adjacent end faces 3 can be recognized. It can easily be perceived here that laterally adjacent mirror units 1 can be arranged due to their trapezoidal cross-section such that the housings of the mirror units 1 overlap one another so that a tight packing of the mirror units 1 in the transport unit 8 can take place.
- the base rail 20 mounted on the stand elements 24 has both latching means 22 and counter-latching means 23 in its longitudinal slot.
- Front plate 19 has at its first longitudinal edge 1 1, a locking means 12 which engages with a counter-locking means 14 on the second longitudinal edge 13 of the end plate 10 and thus prevents displacement of the mirror unit 1 in the entire arrangement of the transport unit 8.
- a locking means 12 which engages with a counter-locking means 14 on the second longitudinal edge 13 of the end plate 10 and thus prevents displacement of the mirror unit 1 in the entire arrangement of the transport unit 8.
- the overlapping of the respective mirror units with their end faces 3 over the adjacent end plates 10, 19 effectively prevents displacement in the viewing direction or in the direction out of the image plane.
- Figure 4 shows a complete transport unit 8, consisting of a plurality of mirror units 1, which are arranged alternately rotated by 180 ° in layers on a total of two base rails 20 are arranged.
- FIG. 5 shows a carrying device 4 on which the mirror units 1 are to be mounted at the installation site.
- the mirror units 1 are delivered and unloaded by means of a crane truck and placed on the support device 4 at each end.
- the mirror units 1 which have already been freed from the end plate 10 in this position, are moved to their final assembly position, where they are detached from the carriage and connected with their hinges in place in the assembly position.
- the mounting position to which they pass via the displacement of the carriage 7 along a rail arrangement 6, they may, if necessary, be oriented in such a way that the incident sunlight first strikes the mirrors 1 on the mirrors and then arranged above the support 4 Absorber 5.
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