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基于抛物槽式集热场的流分布与接收器热损失的物理信息学习

机器学习 2025-12-12 v1 计算工程、金融与科学

摘要

抛物槽式集热热力学(CSP) plants operate large hydraulic networks of collector loops that must deliver a uniform outlet temperature despite spatially heterogeneous optical performance, heat losses, and pressure drops。 While loop temperatures are measured, loop-level mass flows and receiver heat-loss parameters are unobserved, making it impossible to diagnose hydraulic imbalances or receiver degradation using standard monitoring tools。 We present a physics-informed learning framework that infers (i) loop-level mass-flow ratios and (ii) time-varying receiver heat-transfer coefficients directly from routine operational data。 The method exploits nocturnal homogenization periods -- when hot oil is circulated through a non-irradiated field -- to isolate hydraulic and thermal-loss effects。 A differentiable conjugate heat-transfer model is discretized and embedded into an end-to-end learning pipeline optimized using historical plant data from the 50 MW Andasol 3 solar field。 The model accurately reconstructs loop temperatures (RMSE <2<2^\circC) and produces physically meaningful estimates of loop imbalances and receiver heat losses。 Comparison against drone-based infrared thermography (QScan) shows strong correspondence, correctly identifying all areas with high-loss receivers。 This demonstrates that noisy real-world CSP operational data contain enough information to recover latent physical parameters when combined with appropriate modeling and differentiable optimization。

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@article{arxiv.2512.10886,
  title  = {Physics-Informed Learning of Flow Distribution and Receiver Heat Losses in Parabolic Trough Solar Fields},
  author = {Stefan Matthes and Markus Schramm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.10886},
  year   = {2025}
}