TY - GEN
T1 - Accelerated aging test of solar reflectors according to the new AENOR standard – results of a round Robin test
AU - Fernández-García, Aránzazu
AU - Martínez-Arcos, Lucía
AU - Sutter, Florian
AU - Wette, Johannes
AU - Sallaberry, Fabienne
AU - Erice, Raquel
AU - Diamantino, Teresa
AU - Carvalho, M. João
AU - Raccurt, Olivier
AU - Pescheux, Anne-Claire
AU - Imbuluzqueta, Gorka
AU - Machado, Maider
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Author(s).
PY - 2018/11/8
Y1 - 2018/11/8
N2 - Durability tests of reflector materials for concentrating solar applications are crucial to guarantee the profitability of the plants and to ensure a proper efficiency during their lifetime. A standard including a set of five accelerated aging tests is close to be published by the Spanish standardization entity AENOR, within the sub-committee AEN/CTN 206/SC117. Under the framework of the STAGE-STE project, a Round Robin Test was organized by six partners to evaluate the comparability of results obtained in their respective laboratories after performing these durability tests. According to the results, in general a good agreement among the partners was found, with negligible to slight reflectance losses. In addition, it was noticed that the reference standard used in the reflectance measurements is of high importance. The conclusions of this work will help to improve the standard in future versions.
AB - Durability tests of reflector materials for concentrating solar applications are crucial to guarantee the profitability of the plants and to ensure a proper efficiency during their lifetime. A standard including a set of five accelerated aging tests is close to be published by the Spanish standardization entity AENOR, within the sub-committee AEN/CTN 206/SC117. Under the framework of the STAGE-STE project, a Round Robin Test was organized by six partners to evaluate the comparability of results obtained in their respective laboratories after performing these durability tests. According to the results, in general a good agreement among the partners was found, with negligible to slight reflectance losses. In addition, it was noticed that the reference standard used in the reflectance measurements is of high importance. The conclusions of this work will help to improve the standard in future versions.
KW - Accelerated aging test
KW - Solar reflectors
KW - Accelerated aging test
KW - Solar reflectors
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057074108&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1063/1.5067231
DO - 10.1063/1.5067231
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-073541757-1
VL - 2033
T3 - 0094-243X
SP - 230003
BT - unknown
A2 - Mancilla, Rodrigo
A2 - Richter, Christoph
PB - American Institute of Physics Inc.
T2 - 23rd International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2017
Y2 - 26 September 2017 through 29 September 2017
ER -