Abstract

In the present work, the analysis of the first images obtained from de Solar Furnace of High Radiative Flux in Mexico is presented. The solar furnace has five different focal distance groups. The images were acquired using the first two groups of mirrors from complete optics of main concentrator. We used a Heliostat with a reflective surface of 36 m². The Images was captured with a CCD camera and the irradiance profile was modeled with a ray-tracing program in order to estimate the global optical error for the concentrator-heliostat optical system. The results shows that the optical error is less to 3 mrad and the calculations indicates that the flux peak for the complete groups of mirrors could be higher than 12 000 suns and the average flux could be higher than 5,000 suns.