US20090211569A1 - Reflector element for a solar heat reflector and the method for producing the same - Google Patents

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US20090211569A1 US12/051,456 US5145608A US2009211569A1 US 20090211569 A1 US20090211569 A1 US 20090211569A1 US 5145608 A US5145608 A US 5145608A US 2009211569 A1 US2009211569 A1 US 2009211569A1
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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
    • F24S23/82—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors with reflectors characterised by the material or the construction of the reflector
    • 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
    • F24S23/74—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors with reflectors with trough-shaped or cylindro-parabolic reflective surfaces
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    • G02B5/08—Mirrors
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    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B7/00—Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements
    • G02B7/18—Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for prisms; for mirrors
    • G02B7/182—Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for prisms; for mirrors for mirrors
    • G02B7/183—Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for prisms; for mirrors for mirrors specially adapted for very large mirrors, e.g. for astronomy, or solar concentrators
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
    • F24S25/00—Arrangement of stationary mountings or supports for solar heat collector modules
    • F24S25/60—Fixation means, e.g. fasteners, specially adapted for supporting solar heat collector modules
    • 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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  • the present invention relates to a reflector element for use in a solar heat reflector or the like, a solar heat reflector comprising at least one of those reflector elements, a solar heat reflecting installation comprising at least one those solar reflectors, and to a method of manufacturing the reflector element.
  • Sunlight is seen as one of the most promising among renewable energy resources, since it is clean, reliable, environment respectful, endless and free. Nevertheless, in order to meet the world's growing energy needs, it is essential a further development, both in research and applications, of technologies for collecting, accumulating and harnessing solar energy, so costs are reduced and efficiency improved, making this energy worldwide competitive.
  • Photovoltaic systems also known as PV systems
  • PV systems have been mainly developed for small and medium-sized applications due to the high price of photovoltaic cells although new multi-megawatt PV plants have been built recently.
  • concentrating solar thermal power plants have been more common. These systems comprise solar collectors which use lenses or mirrors to concentrate a large area of sunlight onto a receiver, through which a working fluid flows, which is heated before transferring its heat to a boiler or power generation system.
  • Solar collectors are known in the art. They usually include at least one mirror that reflects incident light to a focal location such as a focal point or line.
  • a solar collector can include one or more mirrors that reflect incident sunlight and focus the light at a common location.
  • a cost-effective collector consists of a linear parabolic reflector that concentrates light onto a receiver positioned along the reflector's focal line.
  • a liquid e.g., water, oil, or any other suitable thermal liquid
  • a conventional method to produce a parabolic reflector consists on hot-bending.
  • a glass substrate is bent on a approximately parabolic shape mould using high temperatures and once slowly cooled, a reflective coating is applied either on the concave or the convex side of the bent glass substrate.
  • a drawback of a parabolic reflector thus produced is that the hot-bending may cause some distortions which lead to optical deficiencies and sun energy reflection loss.
  • Other drawbacks are the low bent glass production rate achieved when using this manufacturing methodology and the low resistance of the glass panes to the wind loads and the accidental impacts against them.
  • Said method comprises forming a reflective coating on a flat glass substrate, using a mould member to cold-bend the glass substrate and applying a frame member to the cold-bent glass substrate to mechanically maintain the cold-bent glass substrate in a bent shape.
  • frame member it is meant any solid element which is applied to the bent glass substrate in order to maintain it in its bent shape and without which element the glass substrate would recover its initial flat shape.
  • a frame an additional pre-bent glass or metal sheet, or a thermoplastic member.
  • a curved reflector including a mirror which comprises a thin plate-like chemically tempered glass, a reflective coating and a protective coating, which mirror is mechanically curved along the surface of a rigid member at room temperature.
  • Chemical tempering strengthens glass by putting the surface of the glass into compression, due to an exchange of ions.
  • a piece of glass is submersed in a bath of molten salt at a prescribed temperature. The heat causes the smaller ions to leave the surface of the glass and the larger ions present in the molten salt to enter it. Once the piece of glass is removed from the bath and cooled, it shrinks. The larger ions that are now present in the surface of the glass are crowded together. This creates a compressed surface, which results in a stronger glass with an increased resistance to breaking.
  • This method of chemical tempering is time-demanding, low manufacturing rated and very expensive.
  • a second object of the present invention is to provide an efficient method for producing such a reflector, which is cheap, simple and reproducible.
  • a reflector element for a solar heat reflector according to independent claim 1 a solar heat reflector according to independent claim 11 , a solar heat reflecting installation according to independent claim 12 and a method for producing a reflector element for a solar heat reflector according to independent claim 13 .
  • Favourable embodiments are defined by the dependent claims.
  • a solar heat reflector according to the invention comprises a number of reflector elements which forms a substantially parabolic reflecting surface that reflects and concentrates incident sun radiation to a focal receiver which performs as a heat collector.
  • the heat reflector comprises four reflector elements following a substantially parabolic curve.
  • a reflector element for a solar heat reflector which comprises a self-supported curved not mechanically flexed monolithic piece of heat-treated glass pane and reflecting means.
  • ‘Monolithic’ shall be understood throughout this document as a glass pane made of a single piece of glass in opposition to a multi-piece glass, such as laminated, that is composed of at least two glasses and one or several interlayer resins.
  • Heat-treatment of glass involves heating the glass to a temperature near its softening point and forcing it to rapidly cool under carefully controlled conditions.
  • Heat-treated glasses can be classified as either fully tempered or heat strengthened, according to their surface compression degrees.
  • the heat-treating process produces highly desirable conditions of induced stress which result in additional strength—achieving up to six times that of the normal annealed glass—, resistance to thermal shock and impact resistance.
  • These improved conditions are especially advantageous for a reflector element to be used in a solar heat reflector located in the open air, usually in desert regions, where the collector is subjected to huge temperature variations and high wind loads in those large open spaces.
  • the heat-treating process for either, tempering or heat-strengthening glass confers enhanced resistance properties to the reflector element of the invention.
  • the piece of heat-treated glass pane has been softened, it is bent in a continuous process to a curved shape suitable for a solar heat collector.
  • the reflector element is preferably bent in a substantially parabolic shape but other shapes—such as cylindrical or spherical—can be envisaged for different embodiments of the invention.
  • substantially parabolic shall be understood throughout this document as any transversal section of the reflector element of the invention that has a substantially parabolic shape.
  • Such ‘substantially parabolic’ shape can be characterized by the intercept factor (IF). This factor is defined by the percentage of the whole incoming solar radiation that strikes the reflector and that is reflected on a tube of a 70 mm diameter (the linear receiver or absorbing tube) with its axis located along the theoretical focal line of the solar heat reflector.
  • the IF factor of the reflector elements produced by the method herein described have a minimum value of 95%.
  • a ‘self-supported’ glass pane shall be understood throughout this document as a glass pane which does not require the cooperation of a frame member or any other device to maintain its shape at the normal utilization temperatures, and that it is kept in its working position by the supporting structure.
  • the absence of a frame member or other device in the reflector element of the invention to keep its curved shape results in material, money and time saving in its manufacturing and also has the advantage of a smaller weight and maintenance cost of the solar heat reflector.
  • a further advantage of the reflector element of the invention is that it comprises a monolithic glass, i.e. no lamination or combination of glass with other glass panes or other materials is needed.
  • the glass pane of the reflector element for a solar heat reflector according to the invention has preferably a thickness of equal or less than 5 mm, although thicker glass panes can be manufactured and used as reflectors in accordance with the invention.
  • the reflector element of the invention also comprises reflecting means, such as a reflecting coating or a layer of a reflecting element deposited either on its concave or convex side, the reflecting capabilities being provided by one or more coating layers, covered by one or more protecting layers of a protective element such as paint coats or adhesive films.
  • the purpose of such protection layers being the preservation of the reflective behaviour of the reflector elements and the increase of the duration of the reflective coatings of the reflector element, normally installed in places where it is exposed to very aggressive environmental conditions.
  • the first protection layer of the reflector element of the invention comprise an antioxidant or passivation layer, chemically deposited directly on top of the reflecting layer, and on top of this first protection layer, an additional second or even more layers of paint are sequentially deposited to increase the weather resistance and durability of the reflecting layer.
  • the reflector element provided by the present invention has optimal optical properties, such as solar energy reflectance (R E %) larger than 92% and light reflectance (RL D65 %) larger than 94% in the solar spectrum comprising 270 to 2500 nm, when measurements are made in accordance with ISO 9050:2003 with an 1.5 air mass value.
  • the reflector element When thermally heat strengthened, the reflector element has compressive layers in both surfaces between 20 Mpa and 69 Mpa, resulting in improved mechanical properties with respect to typical annealed glass reflectors in use.
  • the reflector element When thermally tempered, the reflector element has compressive layers in both surfaces in excess of 70 Mpa, resulting in improved mechanical properties with respect to typical annealed glass reflectors in use.
  • the reflector element of the invention can be provided with at least one bore without fracturing when submitted to mounting stresses.
  • Said bore can be advantageously used to fix the reflector element to a supporting structure in the solar heat reflector by means of a fixing element and can have different diameter values depending on the required attachment of the reflector element to its supporting structure.
  • a second aspect of the invention is to provide a solar heat reflector comprising at least one reflector element according to the invention.
  • a third aspect of the invention is to provide a solar heat reflecting installation comprising at least one solar reflector according to the invention.
  • a fourth aspect of the invention is to provide a method for manufacturing the reflector element of the invention.
  • a flat annealed glass is cut by several potential means, such as diamond cutting wheel, milling, water jet, etc, to its desired perimeter shape and dimensions and then grinded to either flat or curved edge finishing.
  • This edge grinding operation prevents glass from stress breaking due to the small surface cracks that normally appear on the glass edge in the cutting operations.
  • one or more bores can be drilled in the glass plane depending on the reflector attachment method to its supporting structure. The edges of the holes in every side of the glass can be countersunk to smooth away the mechanical stress of the fixing devices that will be fixed through them.
  • Drying of the glass is normally made by means of high speed cold or hot air angled projection on the glass surfaces.
  • the glass cut, edge grinded, drilled and cleaned is loaded on a bending furnace to conduct its bending and thermal stress treatment.
  • the glass is properly positioned on the loading table of the heating oven and progressively heated to its bending temperature by continuous, or step-by-step, travelling through the heating tunnel.
  • Radiation with electrical heat sources or convection by means of hot air heating can be used to heat up the glass.
  • the glass As the glass reaches the desired temperature, it is rapidly moved to the bending section, where the glass is bended to its desired curved shape and immediately heat strengthened or tempered (heat treatment) with rapid cooling by means of violent air blowing on both glass sides.
  • heat treatment heat strengthened or tempered
  • the glass is cooled down to a normal handling temperature (under 50° C.) by continuous or discontinuous travelling in a cooling tunnel where it is blown with atmospheric air coming from one or several fans. Compressed air can also be used to apply cooling for strengthening of the glass.
  • Glass handling is made with special automatic or manual devices that allow easy displacement when loading and unloading operations are carried out.
  • NC numerically controlled
  • PLC programmable logic controller
  • Furnace parameters (glass speed, temperatures, bender operation, air pressure, etc), furnace operations and their coordination are fully automatic and controlled by means of a sophisticated computer control system.
  • bent glass is then moved to a coating line to provide it with the necessary reflective capabilities, conducting a mirroring process, but specifically adapted to curved parabolic shape glass panes.
  • a reflective coating process is conducted comprising the application of a reflective layer, anti-oxidation or passivation layers, and several protective layers.
  • FIG. 1 shows top and side views of the parabolic reflector element of the invention.
  • FIG. 2 shows the principle of reflection of an incident solar ray in a parabolic reflector element and the corresponding absorbing tube.
  • FIG. 3 shows top and side views of a reflector element with conventional mounting means.
  • FIG. 4 shows a preferred configuration of the reflective and protection layers applied to the reflector element's convex side.
  • FIG. 1 a reflector element ( 1 ) for a solar collector according to a preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in both, top and side—section AA—views.
  • Said reflector element comprises a not mechanically flexed monolithic glass pane ( 2 ) of heat treated glass which due to its enhanced resistance properties becomes self-supported without requiring the presence of any kind of frame member or device to maintain its shape at the normal utilization temperatures.
  • the principle of reflection of an incident solar ray ( 6 ) in a reflector element ( 1 ) and the corresponding absorbing tube ( 5 ) is shown in FIG. 2 .
  • the thickness of the glass pane is equal or less than 5 mm.
  • FIG. 3 shows the reflector element ( 1 ) of the invention and a detail of a conventional mounting means ( 7 ) for fixing the reflector element ( 1 ) to a solar heat reflector's structure.
  • These conventional mounting means ( 7 ) which do not require bores in the reflector, comprises supporting pads ( 8 ) for installation on the collector structure attached to the reflector element's back surface (convex face) via an adhesive material ( 9 ).
  • These mounting means are perfectly usable in the reflector element of the invention.
  • bores ( 3 ) have been made through the glass pane thickness ( 2 ) to provide housing for mounting elements through which the reflector element ( 1 ) will be fixed to the solar collector structure.
  • One detail of a bore ( 3 ) is shown in FIG. 1 .
  • a reflective layer ( 10 ) made of chemically deposited silver, an antioxidant or passivation layer made of chemically deposited copper ( 11 ), and three layers ( 12 - 14 ) of paint have been applied to provide the reflecting and weathering endurance characteristics to the reflector element.
  • FIG. 4 the composition of the reflective ( 10 ) and protective layers ( 11 - 14 ) applied to the reflector element's convex face according to a preferred embodiment of the invention are shown.
  • the method of producing the reflector element of the invention comprises the steps of:
  • the heat treatment is thermal heat strengthening or thermal tempering.
  • the step of edge grinding comprises the operation of drilling bores ( 3 ) in the glass pane ( 2 ). These bores ( 3 ) will be used by the corresponding mounting means to fix the reflector element to the solar heat reflector's structure.
  • the application of a reflective coating ( 10 ) and its protective layers ( 11 - 14 ) comprises the following steps.
  • the first step in the manufacture of the reflector element is the removal of all impurities and minor surface defects on the glass side to be coated. This is achieved by using a water suspension of a polishing material such as Cerium Oxide (CeO) in combination with water.
  • the polishing is performed by feeding the polishing means into a station equipped with brushes that describe both, rotation and side to side movements. After the polishing operation is performed, the residual polishing powder is removed by demineralised water rinsing.
  • Glass sheets are then warmed up to near 25° C. by rinsing with hot water and then sprayed with a promoter adhesion solution made of Tin Chloride salt in water.
  • the reflective layer ( 10 ) is created.
  • the reflective surface ( 10 ) is composed of a chemically deposited layer of metallic silver that is created after two solutions. The first one is made of Silver Nitrate and the second one is made of a Reducer. Both are independently sprayed and mixed up on top of the glass surface. After allowing a reaction time, typically 1 to 2 minutes, glasses are rinsed with demineralised water followed by the application of an anticorrosion and antioxidant layer made of metallic Copper ( 11 ).
  • the layer of metallic silver ( 10 ) has a minimum thickness of 0.7 g/m 2 .
  • the Copper (passivation) layer ( 11 ) is deposited after two water solutions; the first one containing copper sulphate and the second one being a suspension of iron powder. They are independently sprayed and mixed up on top of the previous reflecting layer ( 10 ). After allowing a reaction time of 1 to 2 minutes, glasses are rinsed with water and air dried before entering a heating tunnel for the final metal coats ( 10 , 11 ) drying.
  • the layer of copper ( 11 ) has a minimum thickness of 0.3 g/m 2 .
  • the protective layers ( 12 - 14 ) of paint are applied on top of the metal coats ( 10 , 11 ) described.
  • the first out of three layers of paint or “basecoat” paint ( 12 ) is applied via a curtain coater followed by the corresponding infrared (IR)-curing furnace and an air cooling tunnel to reduce the glass temperature prior to the next step.
  • the dry film thickness for the base coat ( 12 ) ranges from about 20 to 45 micron.
  • the second layer of paint or “intermediate” paint ( 13 ) is also applied in a curtain coater followed by the corresponding IR-curing furnace and an air cooling tunnel.
  • the dry film thickness for the intermediate paint ( 13 ) ranges from about 25 to 55 micron.
  • the third layer of paint or “top” coat ( 14 ) is also applied in a curtain coater with its corresponding IR-curing furnace and an air cooling tunnel.
  • the dry film thickness for the top coat ( 14 ) ranges from about 25 to 55 micron.
  • the reflector element goes through a final washing station provided with demineralised water, to remove any contamination caused during the process on its opposite, non-coated side, and then trough an air drying station to remove the moisture from the previous washing step.
  • the glass panes are moved to the fitting section where the fixing accessories are mounted of the glass panes by means of robotized equipment for an accurate, easy, rapid mounting of the fixing hardware on the calculated points of the reflector element for its attachment to the solar heat reflector' structure.

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