US20130125874A1 - Solar collectors receiver tubes - Google Patents

Solar collectors receiver tubes Download PDF

Info

Publication number
US20130125874A1
US20130125874A1 US13/813,902 US201113813902A US2013125874A1 US 20130125874 A1 US20130125874 A1 US 20130125874A1 US 201113813902 A US201113813902 A US 201113813902A US 2013125874 A1 US2013125874 A1 US 2013125874A1
Authority
US
United States
Prior art keywords
pills
solar collectors
holder
receiver tube
tube according
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Abandoned
Application number
US13/813,902
Other languages
English (en)
Inventor
Andrea Conte
Paolo Manini
Alessandro Gallitognotta
Mauro Brancaleoni
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
SAES Getters SpA
Original Assignee
Individual
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Individual filed Critical Individual
Assigned to SAES GETTERS S.P.A. reassignment SAES GETTERS S.P.A. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: BRANCALEONI, MAURO, CONTE, ANDREA, GALLITOGNOTTA, ALESSANDRO, MANINI, PAOLO
Assigned to SAES GETTERS S.P.A. reassignment SAES GETTERS S.P.A. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: BRANCALEONI, MAURO, CONTE, ANDREA, GALLITOGNOTTA, ALESSANDRO, MANINI, PAOLO
Publication of US20130125874A1 publication Critical patent/US20130125874A1/en
Abandoned legal-status Critical Current

Links

Images

Classifications

    • F24J2/05—
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
    • F24S20/00—Solar heat collectors specially adapted for particular uses or environments
    • F24S20/20—Solar heat collectors for receiving concentrated solar energy, e.g. receivers for solar power plants
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
    • F24S10/00—Solar heat collectors using working fluids
    • F24S10/40—Solar heat collectors using working fluids in absorbing elements surrounded by transparent enclosures, e.g. evacuated solar collectors
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
    • F24S40/00—Safety or protection arrangements of solar heat collectors; Preventing malfunction of solar heat collectors
    • F24S40/40—Preventing corrosion; Protecting against dirt or contamination
    • F24S40/46—Maintaining vacuum, e.g. by using getters
    • 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
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
    • Y02E10/40—Solar thermal energy, e.g. solar towers
    • 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
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
    • Y02E10/40—Solar thermal energy, e.g. solar towers
    • Y02E10/44—Heat exchange systems

Definitions

  • the present invention refers to improvements for solar collector receiver tubes.
  • the problem related to the presence of hydrogen and the consequential decay in the device characteristics is of particular relevance since at such higher temperatures there is a higher hydrogen outgassing from the metallic parts of the receiver.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to reduce the intensity of this phenomenon, and in a first aspect thereof it consists in a solar collector receiver tube containing a getter system comprising a mechanical support and pills of compressed powders of a getter material, wherein said mechanical support comprises a holder consisting in a base and two lateral shoulders, characterized in that said getter powder pills have a diameter equal to or higher than 15 mm, a diameter/height ratio comprised between 2 and 5, and they are housed within said holder on said base in a single line.
  • the above referenced holder of the getter system can also be described as a U-shaped sledge and the two terms have an equivalent meaning for the purposes of the present invention.
  • FIG. 1A shows a side view and FIG. 1B a view from above of a first embodiment of the getter system, to be used within the receiver tubes, according to the present invention
  • FIG. 2A shows a side view and FIG. 2B a view from above of an alternate embodiment of the getter system, to be used within the receiver tubes, according to the present invention
  • FIG. 3 shows some possible embodiments for elastic elements to be used within the mechanical support
  • FIG. 4 shows a view from above of a getter system, to be used within the receiver tubes, incorporating one of the elastic elements depicted in FIG. 3 ,
  • FIG. 5 is a cross sectional representation of another embodiment of a getter system, to be used within the receiver tubes.
  • the pills surface increase, while keeping the same height, renders them more fragile and consequently more difficult to handle, but, on the other side, the height increase results in a negative effect on the pumping speed and in the difficulties that gaseous impurities encounter in reaching the inner pill regions. Therefore the detrimental effects to be expected in adopting pills with an enlarged diameter would have not prompted a person skilled in the art to adopt such a solution.
  • the getter pills to be used in the present invention are obtained by a suitable compression of the powders of the getter materials and do not comprise binders, that would otherwise affect the capacity of the material intended as amount of hydrogen adsorbed by each pill. This is a fundamental aspect that affects the pill structure resistance and the associated constraints for its successful employ in the solar collector application.
  • the optimal ratio between the pills diameter and their height is comprised between 2 and 5, and for the very same reasons problems start to manifest for pills with a diameter bigger than 35 mm.
  • the pills diameter is comprised between 18 and 25 mm and the ratio between their diameter and their height is comprised between 3 and 4.
  • the arrangements currently employed envision the use of two distinct holders for each receiver tube, with the associated positioning and fixing problems, in addition to the structural costs that include not only the holder but also the elements that complete the mechanical support, i.e. the confinement metallic mesh, spacers and suitable heat shields.
  • the holder has a width that is 1-3 mm larger than the pills diameter, this solves a technical problem associated with the pill structure swelling as a consequence of the hydrogen sorption by the getter material, by allowing for some degree of accommodation of the pill within the holder.
  • the height of the holder intended as height of the elements that constitute the lateral shoulders
  • the height of the lateral shoulders is 0.5-1 mm less than the pills height. This assures that the net itself acts also a constraining element for the getter material pills, to limit their reciprocal movement and the possibility that as a consequence of hits they fragment with a consequent increase in the powder generation.
  • the shoulder height is 1-3 mm more than the pills height for the very same reason and technical effect above described.
  • the holder contains also one or more elastic elements in direct contact with one ore more getter materials pills.
  • the pressure value exerted is a key parameter and its strictly dependent and specifically linked to the field of application, since an excessive pressure value would help in breaking the pills structure rather than preventing its breaking by restraining its movements within the holder.
  • the determination of such value is rendered more difficult by the fact that it should take into account the pill swelling consequent to hydrogen sorption by the getter material, as well as an increased brittleness of the pill structure as a consequence of its hydrogen sorption.
  • the inventors have found that the compression force exerted by the elastic means shall be comprised between 50N and 150N. This value is considered and measured in a newly installed getter systems, therefore when getter material pills may be considered “fresh”, i.e. have adsorbed a minimal amount of hydrogen.
  • the elastic elements shall be free of sharp corners in their contact region with the getter material pills, in order to avoid to have preferential powder generation spots, so they shall present flat or rounded surfaces in such contact points. Such characteristics will be referred hereinafter as “distributed contact”.
  • getter materials preferred are the ones that exhibit a good hydrogen sorption capacity even when used at high temperatures.
  • getter materials useful for the present invention are the ones described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,203,901 (Zr—Al alloys), U.S. Pat. No. 4,306,887 (Zr—Fe alloys), GB patent 2077487 (Zr—V—Fe alloys), U.S. Pat. No. 5,961,750 (Zr—Co—R are earths alloy).
  • yttrium alloys As described in the international patent applications WO 2007/148362, WO 2007/099575 and WO 2010/105945.
  • the above-mentioned getter alloys are the ones preferably used with the present invention, but any hydrogen getter material may be employed with the inventive concept disclosed.
  • FIGS. 1A and 1B a first embodiment for the getter system 10 for solar collectors receiver tubes is shown, wherein the pills of getter material 11 , 11 ′, 11 ′′ . . . are aligned on the flat base 12 of the holder and a confinement metallic net 14 is present, fixed to the holder, for example by means of electric welding.
  • FIG. 1A shows only one of such elements 15 close to one of the holderends, but there could be a second stopping elements 15 ′, as shown in FIG. 1B , at the secondend.
  • the metallic net can be fixed on the holder in various ways, for example it may be fixed on the holder lateral shoulders 13 , 13 ′, or wrapped and fixed at the flat base 12 , on its outer face.
  • the preferred fixing arrangement provides for a slight overlapping of the edges of net 14 , and afterwards performing a single electrical welding in order to fix the net 14 on the holder.
  • the metallic net can be arranged not over the entire length of the holder, thus leaving the ends free, so as to avoid interferences with possible means required for anchoring the holder within the receiver tube.
  • the getter system 20 comprises getter materials pills 21 , 21 ′, 21 ′′ . . . placed on the base of the holder structure, that is closed by means of a cover 23 that comprises openings in which a metallic mesh 22 is arranged.
  • Cover 23 is then fixed onto the holder base by suitable anchoring means, such as, for example, dews, not shown.
  • FIG. 2A there are also shown some tabs 24 folded in such a way as to act as stoppers for the getter material pills 21 . 21 ′, 21 ′′ . . . placed on the holder base.
  • This arrangement has the advantage of allowing to manufacture the closed holder structure by means of a semifinished product, the holder cover with its metallic mesh fixed upon, and therefore simplify the assembly operations of the getter system used in the present invention.
  • the holder is slightly wider with respect to the pills diameter and the lateral shoulders height is slightly lower with respect to the pills height.
  • the preferred dimensions envision the usage of a holder with a width 1-3 mm larger with respect to the pills diameter, and a lateral shoulders height 0.5-1 mm lower with respect to the pills height.
  • the pills stoppers 24 also serve the purpose of exerting a slight longitudinal pressure on the pills line, therefore limiting their transversal movement.
  • the net has holes, or more generically apertures, that have a size between 10 and 500 ⁇ m.
  • the metallic net openings are comprised between 20 e 50 ⁇ m. In case the openings are not circular or roughly circular, the above size refers to their maximum width.
  • FIG. 3 Examples of possible embodiments for elastic elements to be used within the holder are shown in FIG. 3 .
  • Each of the depicted elements, 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 has the part that should be in contact with the getter pill, 311 , 312 , 321 , 322 , 331 , 332 , 341 , 342 that is flat or rounded, therefore suitable to realize a distributed contact with the getter pill surface.
  • FIG. 4 shows a view from above of a holder 40 , containing one of such elastic elements 41 .
  • the cover element of the holder has been represented with the getter material pills 42 , 42 ′ . . . disposed on.
  • the cover and base of the holder indentify the parts of the getter system that within the receiver tube are directed respectively toward the outside (the cover) or toward the inner part of the tube (the base). Cover and base therefore refer to the geometrical positioning not to the way the getter system is assembled, as for example in the embodiment depicted in FIG. 4 the getter pills are placed on the would-be cover.
  • An alternate embodiment of the getter system envisions the use of a modified perforated cover, that instead of presenting a flat surface presents a series of one or more depressions in the net in correspondence to the getter pills, such depressions also presenting rounded or planar contact surfaces in order to achieve a distributed contact interface between the cover and the getter pills.
  • a cross-section 50 of this arrangement is schematically represented in FIG. 5 , where a pill of compressed getter material 51 is disposed over the flat holder base 52 , and is vertically restrained by the depressions 53 , 53 ′ of the net 54 being part of the perforated cover 55 .
  • Such an arrangement has the advantage of restraining also the pills with regards to vertical displacements.
  • the even more preferred embodiment envisions both the use of the depressed perforated cover and of elastic elements for restraining the pills displacement in all directions, but those may also be singly adopted.

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Sustainable Development (AREA)
  • Sustainable Energy (AREA)
  • Thermal Sciences (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Combustion & Propulsion (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Solid-Sorbent Or Filter-Aiding Compositions (AREA)
  • Thermal Insulation (AREA)
  • Photovoltaic Devices (AREA)
  • Ultra Sonic Daignosis Equipment (AREA)
US13/813,902 2010-08-06 2011-07-22 Solar collectors receiver tubes Abandoned US20130125874A1 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (3)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
ITMI2010A001519 2010-08-06
IT001519A ITMI20101519A1 (it) 2010-08-06 2010-08-06 Miglioramenti per tubi ricevitori di collettori solari
PCT/EP2011/062678 WO2012016865A1 (en) 2010-08-06 2011-07-22 Improvements for solar collectors receiver tubes

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
US20130125874A1 true US20130125874A1 (en) 2013-05-23

Family

ID=43739516

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
US13/813,902 Abandoned US20130125874A1 (en) 2010-08-06 2011-07-22 Solar collectors receiver tubes

Country Status (6)

Country Link
US (1) US20130125874A1 (https=)
EP (1) EP2601453A1 (https=)
JP (1) JP2013534303A (https=)
CN (1) CN103080666A (https=)
IT (1) ITMI20101519A1 (https=)
WO (1) WO2012016865A1 (https=)

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US20140158113A1 (en) * 2011-08-04 2014-06-12 Marco Urbano Solar collectors receiver tubes
US9027546B2 (en) * 2012-02-03 2015-05-12 Saes Getters S.P.A. Improvements for solar collector receiver tubes

Families Citing this family (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
ES2454775B1 (es) * 2012-10-11 2015-03-10 Abengoa Solar New Tech Sa Sistema afinador de vacío en tubo caloportador

Family Cites Families (13)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2167852A (en) * 1935-10-22 1939-08-01 Rca Corp Electron discharge device
US3225910A (en) * 1961-02-04 1965-12-28 Porta Paolo Della Getter devices with non-evaporated gettering material, for maintaining vacuum in electronic tubes
US3203901A (en) 1962-02-15 1965-08-31 Porta Paolo Della Method of manufacturing zirconiumaluminum alloy getters
IT1115156B (it) 1979-04-06 1986-02-03 Getters Spa Leghe zr-fe per l'assorbimento di idrogeno a basse temperature
IT1198325B (it) 1980-06-04 1988-12-21 Getters Spa Struttura e composizione getteranti,particolarmente adatti per basse temperature
IT1290451B1 (it) 1997-04-03 1998-12-03 Getters Spa Leghe getter non evaporabili
GB0028395D0 (en) * 2000-11-22 2001-01-03 Ici Plc Getters
JP3416654B2 (ja) * 2001-01-18 2003-06-16 住友金属テクノロジー株式会社 非焼成成形ゲッタ
IL153872A (en) * 2003-01-09 2005-06-19 Solel Solar Systems Ltd Getter support assembly for a solar energy collector system
GB0427647D0 (en) * 2004-12-17 2005-01-19 Johnson Matthey Plc Hydrogen getter
ITMI20060361A1 (it) 2006-02-28 2007-09-01 Getters Spa Assorbimento di idrogeno mediante l'impiego di leghe getter non evaporabili metodo ed applicazioni
ITMI20061173A1 (it) 2006-06-19 2007-12-20 Getters Spa Leghe getter non evaporabili adatte particolarmente per l'assorbimento di idrogeno
ITMI20090410A1 (it) 2009-03-18 2010-09-19 Getters Spa Leghe getter non evaporabili adatte particolarmente per l'assorbimento di idrogeno

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US20140158113A1 (en) * 2011-08-04 2014-06-12 Marco Urbano Solar collectors receiver tubes
US9103565B2 (en) * 2011-08-04 2015-08-11 Saes Getters S.P.A. Solar collectors receiver tubes
US9027546B2 (en) * 2012-02-03 2015-05-12 Saes Getters S.P.A. Improvements for solar collector receiver tubes

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
EP2601453A1 (en) 2013-06-12
ITMI20101519A1 (it) 2012-02-07
CN103080666A (zh) 2013-05-01
JP2013534303A (ja) 2013-09-02
WO2012016865A1 (en) 2012-02-09

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
US9103565B2 (en) Solar collectors receiver tubes
US20130125874A1 (en) Solar collectors receiver tubes
KR102179987B1 (ko) 연료 집합체
US3664924A (en) Nuclear reactor spring ferrule spacer grid
JP2015014444A (ja) 集熱管
JP2020501091A (ja) 複数のシールを備える水素貯蔵タンク
US20130025585A1 (en) Getter system for hydrogen sensitive devices
EP2783167B1 (en) Improvements for solar collector receiver tubes
EP4280227A1 (en) Control rod absorber assembly, control rod and control rod assembly
CN1897770B (zh) 加热体
JP6095586B2 (ja) ゲッター部材収納具、ゲッター装置及びゲッターポンプ
US9196386B2 (en) Spacer grid for nuclear fuel assembly for reducing high frequency vibration
KR100844882B1 (ko) 핵연료집합체의 핵연료봉 내부 공간 증가 및 압축스프링지지를 위한 봉단마개를 구비한 핵연료봉
JP4180612B2 (ja) 燃料集合体
KR101729155B1 (ko) 핵연료 집합체의 지지격자
KR100889033B1 (ko) 핵연료집합체의 항아리형 핵연료봉 내부 공간 증가 스프링
US10672521B2 (en) Spacers with deflection-limited peripheral springs for nuclear fuel assemblies and methods of making the same
JP2013217762A (ja) 核燃料要素および燃料集合体
ES2578328T3 (es) Barra de control para un reactor nuclear de agua ligera
Song et al. MECHANICAL/STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSES AND TESTS OF KAERI DEVISED SPACER GRIDS FOR THE PWRS (Ⅱ)
RU2005118292A (ru) Способ герметизации тепловыделяющего элемента ядерного реактора
JP2013036741A (ja) 燃料集合体および燃料棒
JPH02114197A (ja) 燃料集合体におけるスペーサ
ES2454775A1 (es) Sistema afinador de vacío en tubo caloportador
JPS63208789A (ja) 原子炉燃料集合体の支持格子

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
AS Assignment

Owner name: SAES GETTERS S.P.A., ITALY

Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNORS:CONTE, ANDREA;MANINI, PAOLO;GALLITOGNOTTA, ALESSANDRO;AND OTHERS;REEL/FRAME:029742/0722

Effective date: 20110902

STCB Information on status: application discontinuation

Free format text: ABANDONED -- FAILURE TO RESPOND TO AN OFFICE ACTION