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.