DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND POWER-GENERATING SOLAR FACILITIES - NEW APPROACH

This paper deals with various ways of utilization of high-temperature mirror-type solar ovens (HTMSO) for technological and power-generating applications and demonstrates the promise held by the use of these ov ens which consist of parabolic concentrators of solar radiation, light guides, and heating chambers with internal mirror coating. One of the important advantages of HTMSO over the known high-temperature solar o vens is the absence of rigid correlation between the position of the c oncentrator of solar radiation and the inlet port of the heating chamb er, and the other advantage is the cold wall of HTMSO, which facilitat es the evacuation of the heating chamber and causes no deposition of d ust on the windows via which concentrated solar radiation is introduce d into the HTMSO. It appears that special promise is held by the use o f HTMSO in space, both in space-related technologies (such as preparat ion of ultrapure semiconductors) and for generation of electricity onb oard space stations and satellites.