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Sandia’s NSTTF facilitates ground-breaking experiments this summer

  • Falling particle receiver
  • Particle-to-sCO primary heat exchanger
  • sCO loop (to represent a closed-loop recompression sCO Brayton cycle)
  • Indirect air cooling system for the sCO loop

  • G3P3 (Gen 3 Particle Pilot Plant) where researchers are working on ways to reduce heat loss and improve efficiencies in various components of the falling particle receiver system
  • Gen 3 CSP sCO Coolant Loop to simulate a 1 MWth power cycle for the Gen 3 CSP pilot plant
  • A Gen 3 Lab Call where researchers from Sandia and its partner, University of New Mexico, measure particle and heat loss from the receiver aperture using novel imaging techniques