SunLab Test Facilities

SunLab Test Facilities

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Abstract

The U.S. Department of Energy maintains two major test facilities in support of its Solar Thermal Electric Program--Sandia's National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and NREL's High-Flux Solar Furnace (HFSF) in Golden, Colorado. Manufacturers can use the NSTTF to test new designs, ideas, and products in an outdoor environment much like the environment the equipmentwill be in when it is used in the field; the operational characteristics and size of NREL's 10-kilowatt HFSF make it ideal for testing prototype hardware and calibrating flux gauges, which are used to measure levels of concentrated sunlight.

Original language	American English
Publisher	National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
Number of pages	2
State	Published - 1997

NLR Publication Number

NREL/FS-330-23377

Other Report Number

DOE/GO-10097-433

Keywords

Albuquerque, New Mexico
concentrating solar power program
National Solar Thermal Test Facility
Sandia National Laboratory (SNL)
SunLab

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