About Concentrating Solar Power

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Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility and Sandia Technical Library have developed the world’s first and only digital collection of Concentrating Solar Power related historical documents, dating back to the CSP program inception at Sandia in the 1970’s to the present.

This archive includes a significant number of paper-based documents spanning reports, engineering drawings and other media recently converted to digital format. It will provide CSP researchers a unique library of files to help make a larger historical body of CSP documents accessible to the Sandia and global CSP R&D communities.

Read more about the CSP Historical Documents Library.

For more information, contact the CSP Team.

Notable Papers

On-Sun Performance Evaluation of Alternative High-Temperature Falling Particle Receiver Designs

Thermodynamically consistent modeling of redox-stable perovskite oxides for thermochemical energy conversion and storage Design and operating considerations for a shell-and-plate, moving packed-bed, particle-to-sCO2heat exchanger

A Particle/ScO2 Heat Exchanger Testbed and Reference Cycle Cost Analysis

Videos

Concentrated Solar Power Videos

Ru0026D 100, 2016: Falling Particle Receiver Full Screen

Falling Particle Receiver Full Screen

Parabolic Dish Stirling Engine at Sandia National Laboratories Full Screen

CSP History

Click the link below to see history related to concentrating solar power in an episode of History Channel’s Ancient Impossible. Ancient Impossible, Season 1, Episode 1