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Heliyon, 2023 The heliostat field layout in a central receiver solar thermal power plant has significant optical losses that can ultimately affect the overall output power of the plant.
Muhammad Haris +8 more
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CFD Modeling of the Solar Two Central Tower System Receiver [PDF]
, 2018 Nowadays, CSP technologies cannot compete on price, for example, with photovoltaics (solar panels), which have been subjected to a huge growth in these last years because of the falling prices of the panels and a much smaller operating cost, as well as ...
Simone Pastura (7972544)
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A Novel Hybrid CSP-PV Power Plant Based on Brayton Supercritical CO2 Thermal Machines
Applied Sciences, 2023 A novel hybrid CSP-PV power plant is presented. Instead of the integration used in current hybrid power plants, where part of the PV production is charged into the thermal energy storage system through electrical resistors, the proposed system integrates
José Ignacio Linares +5 more
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Modeling of Irradiance Attenuation from a Heliostat to the Receiver of a Solar Central Tower
Energy Procedia, 2014 AbstractA test bench located at Jabal Hafeet Mountain in Abu Dhabi has been prepared. Four pyrheliometers located at different altitudes from 340 m to 1035 m above mean sea level continuously recorded the Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI) with high accuracy.
Tahboub, Z. +3 more
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Chapter Techno-Economic Optimization and Benchmarking of a Solar-Only Powered Combined Cycle with High-Temperature TES Upstream the Gas Turbine [PDF]
, 2019 This work presents a techno-economic parametric study of an innovative central receiver solar thermal power plant layout that applies the combined cycle (CC) as thermodynamic power cycle and a multi-tower solar field configuration together with open ...
Sánchez, Marcelino +7 more
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Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022 Exploring renewable energy is beneficial for ameliorating the energy crisis and reducing environmental emissions. The hybrid utilization of solar and geothermal energies is an effective way to improve the existing energy consumption structure dominated ...
Yi Que +4 more
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Preliminary discrete element modeling of a falling particle curtain for CSP central tower receivers [PDF]
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2016 Current methods used to simulate the curtain thickness in a falling particle receiver lead to a poor agreement with the experiments. Here the Discrete Element Method (DEM) is proposed to address the problem, including both the top hopper and the interactions between particles in the model.
ZANINO, Roberto +3 more
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District Cooling Using Central Tower Power Plant [PDF]
, 2014 During the operation of solar power towers there are occasions, commonly in the summer season, where some of the heliostats have to stop focusing at the central receiver, located at the top of the tower, because the maximum temperature that the receiver ...
Sánchez-Delgado, S. +3 more
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Optical Benchmarking of a Novel Polar Bi-Focal Beam-Down Tower Concept
SolarPACES Conference ProceedingsSmall-scale modular CSP systems using polar heliostat field arrangements reduce cosine losses significantly and – by integrating a secondary beam-down reflector – enable novel receiver concepts.
Peter Schöttl +2 more
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Results in Engineering, 2020 One of the most promising technologies for solar thermal power are solar power towers (SPTs), in which direct solar radiation is redirected by heliostats to a receiver located on top of a tower.
Rafael Pérez-Álvarez +2 more
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