COMPARISON OF DIFFIERENT OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR HELIOSTAT FIELD DESIGN

Luo Jiacheng; Wen Jiahao; Pu Jianying; Yang Jian

doi:10.19912/j.0254-0096.tynxb.2023-1997

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Acta Energiae Solaris Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (4) : 342-349. DOI: 10.19912/j.0254-0096.tynxb.2023-1997

COMPARISON OF DIFFIERENT OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR HELIOSTAT FIELD DESIGN

Luo Jiacheng, Wen Jiahao, Pu Jianying, Yang Jian

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The optical efficiency of heliostat is modeled by the ray tracing method in this paper. and the layout of heliostat in the field is obtained by using radial grid method. Considering that the actual mirror field is not an east-west symmetric type, the position parameters of absorber in the east-west direction are added. Then, under the constraint condition that the mirror field reaches the rated annual average output power, and the maximum annual average output power per unit mirror area is the objective function, the design results of whale optimization, particle swarm optimization and differential optimization for the position of the absorber, the size of the heliostat, the number of the heliostat and the position of the heliostat are compared. In the position of longitude and latitude（39.4 °N, 98.5 °E）, in the east-west symmetrical layout, the whale optimization has an improvement of 0.01%~0.05% compared with the other two optimization. In the non-east-west symmetrical layout, the asymmetry is more symmetrical, with 3.6326% improvement.

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CSP / heliostat field / mathematical technique / ray tracing / radial grid layout / non-east-west symmetric layout

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Luo Jiacheng, Wen Jiahao, Pu Jianying, Yang Jian. COMPARISON OF DIFFIERENT OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR HELIOSTAT FIELD DESIGN[J]. Acta Energiae Solaris Sinica. 2025, 46(4): 342-349 https://doi.org/10.19912/j.0254-0096.tynxb.2023-1997

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