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srlife: a software tool for estimating the life of high temperature concentrating solar receivers. Part I – metallic receivers.

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Title: srlife: a software tool for estimating the life of high temperature concentrating solar receivers. Part I – metallic receivers.
Authors: Messner, Mark C.1 (AUTHOR) messner@anl.gov, Barua, Bipul1 (AUTHOR) barua@anl.gov
Source: Solar Energy. Jul2025, Vol. 295, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p.
Subjects: Solar receivers, Service life, Solar energy, Cost analysis, Heat flux
Abstract: • Developed srlife – a tool for receiver life estimation. • srlife can be integrated into system optimization software stack to meet LCOE targets. • This Part I focuses on metallic receiver; Part-II on ceramic receivers. • Several heuristics are discussed to reduce analysis cost for metallic receivers. • Utility of srlife is demonstrated through an example receiver problem. This paper introduces srlife , a tool for estimating the structural service life of concentrating solar power (CSP) receivers operating at high temperatures. Supporting both metallic and ceramic receiver designs, srlife is available as open-source software at https://github.com/applied-material-modeling/srlife and can be installed via the PyPi package manager (https://pypi.org). Given basic receiver geometry and incident heat flux, the tool performs thermohydraulic and structural analysis and estimates the life of a receiver. Designed for easy integration into a software stack, including solar field and levelized cost analysis, the tool can be utilized for optimizing receiver designs to meet service life and economic targets. This paper is Part I in a two-part series. Part I discusses the analysis process used to estimate the life of metallic receivers, along with a description of the required input data. Additionally, several heuristics applied within srlife can reduce analysis time significantly while maintaining accurate life estimations for metallic receivers when compared to full analyses. Several examples demonstrating the utility of srlife in receiver design are also discussed. Part II focuses on the life estimation of ceramic receivers, using time-dependent reliability analysis and various ceramic failure models implemented in srlife. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:• Developed srlife – a tool for receiver life estimation. • srlife can be integrated into system optimization software stack to meet LCOE targets. • This Part I focuses on metallic receiver; Part-II on ceramic receivers. • Several heuristics are discussed to reduce analysis cost for metallic receivers. • Utility of srlife is demonstrated through an example receiver problem. This paper introduces srlife , a tool for estimating the structural service life of concentrating solar power (CSP) receivers operating at high temperatures. Supporting both metallic and ceramic receiver designs, srlife is available as open-source software at https://github.com/applied-material-modeling/srlife and can be installed via the PyPi package manager (https://pypi.org). Given basic receiver geometry and incident heat flux, the tool performs thermohydraulic and structural analysis and estimates the life of a receiver. Designed for easy integration into a software stack, including solar field and levelized cost analysis, the tool can be utilized for optimizing receiver designs to meet service life and economic targets. This paper is Part I in a two-part series. Part I discusses the analysis process used to estimate the life of metallic receivers, along with a description of the required input data. Additionally, several heuristics applied within srlife can reduce analysis time significantly while maintaining accurate life estimations for metallic receivers when compared to full analyses. Several examples demonstrating the utility of srlife in receiver design are also discussed. Part II focuses on the life estimation of ceramic receivers, using time-dependent reliability analysis and various ceramic failure models implemented in srlife. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:0038092X
DOI:10.1016/j.solener.2025.113518