CX-030785: Scalable Performance and Optimization of Falling Particle Receiver Troughs and Flat Plate Particle To sCO2 Heat Exchanger Channels

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to University of Dayton (UD) to develop a scalable concentrated solar power (CSP) design, performance, and optimization tools in heat exchangers. Optimized CSP tools would be used to reduce costs and provide energy improvements in CSP commercial systems.  Award activities would include computer modeling, engineering, design, data analyses, and laboratory bench-scale testing. UD (Dayton, OH) would carry out modeling and laboratory-scale experimentation.