Time-Dependent Failure Assessment of Ceramic Receivers
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https://doi.org/10.52825/solarpaces.v2i.804Keywords:
Ceramics, Reliability, High Temperature Design, Solar ReceiversAbstract
The outlet temperature targets for Gen 3 Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems pose a significant challenge to the structural reliability of high temperature metallic components, including those manufactured from nickel-based superalloys. Advanced ceramics present a potential solution due to their excellent high-temperature strength. However, accurate assessment of ceramic components requires an entirely different approach compared to metallic components. This paper describes the implementation of time-dependent reliability analysis of ceramic components in srlife – an open-source software package for estimating the life of high temperature CSP components. This new capability will allow high temperature CSP designers to make fair comparisons between competing metallic and ceramic designs and accurately assess the performance of different ceramic materials for CSP receivers and other components. The current version of the tool is available at https://github.com/Argonne-National-Laboratory/srlife.
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Copyright (c) 2024 Bipul Barua, Pawan Chaugule, Mark C. Messner, Dileep Singh
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Accepted 2024-04-23
Published 2024-10-15
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Solar Energy Technologies Office
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U.S. Department of Energy
Grant numbers DE-AC02-06CH11357
