Carrizosa Priego, Emilio JoséDomínguez Bravo, Carmen AnaFernández Cara, EnriqueQuero García, Manuel2018-05-242018-05-242017Carrizosa Priego, E.J., Domínguez Bravo, C.A., Fernández Cara, E. y Quero García, M. (2017). An optimization tool to design the field of a solar power tower plant allowing heliostats of different sizes. International Journal of Energy Research, 41, 1096-1107.0363-907X1099-114Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/75037The design of a Solar Power Tower plant involves the optimization of the heliostat field layout. Fields are usually designed to have all heliostats of identical size. Although the use of a single heliostat size has been questioned in the literature, there are no tools to design fields with heliostats of several sizes at the same time. In this paper, the problem of optimizing the heliostat field layout of a system with heliostats of different sizes is addressed. We present an optimization tool to design solar plants allowing two heliostat sizes. The methodology is illustrated with a particular example considering different heliostat costs.application/pdfengAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Estados Unidos de Américahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Solar thermal power towerField layoutMulti-size-heliostat fieldHeuristic algorithmGreedy algorithminfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1002/er.3684