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value of insolation from the specified insolation model. If the values were signif-
icantly different, the user might want to redesign his systems using a modified
value of REFSOL.
Close examination of the flux map reveals that peak flux does not occur at
the north center of this receiver. What happened is that, because of the dis-
crete steps in receiver size which were taken in designing the receiver, the height
of this receiver is too large. Thus, heliostats were aimed to spread out the flux
and mostly ended up being aimed not at the center of the receiver. However,
if a more optimum receiver were designed by using a finer grid of size variables,
the peak flux would be shifted back to the north center point of the receiver and
would come much closer to meeting the allowable flux level.
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