Model M0
Sizing calculator
Napkin math. It will tell you if a temperature is illegal. It will not tell you how much land a factory needs — that is the year page.
Useful heat
13.04 kW
ηth 36.2%
- Receiver area
- 8000 cm²
- Incident Pin
- 36.00 kW
- At receiver Prec
- 22.32 kW
- Mean flux
- 27.9 kW/m²
- Radiation loss
- 6.16 kW
- Convection loss
- 3.12 kW
- Receiver η
- 58.4%
Design-point only. No cosine-averaged year, no wind map, no pipe leak. If useful heat goes negative, the temperature class is wrong for this aperture.