High-Temperature Thermal Storage System for Solar Tower Power Plants with Open-Volumetric Air Receiver Simulation and Energy Balancing of a Discretized Model [PDF]
, 2013 This paper describes the modeling of a high-temperature storage system for an existing solar tower power plant with open volumetric receiver technology, which uses air as heat transfer medium (HTF).
Alexopoulos, Spiros +6 more
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, 1998 The high desert near Barstow, California, has witnessed the development of this country's first two solar power towers. Solar One operated successfully from 1982 to 1988 and proved that power towers work efficiently to produce utility-scale power from sunlight. Solar Two was connected to the utility grid in 1996 and is operating today.
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A new idea to increase the convective efficiency of a solar tower air receiver by creating a controlled vortex [PDF]
, 2023 Concentrated solar energy as a source of renewable energy has a high potential for solving the current energy crisis. The solar tower receiver is a crucial element of solar energy conversion efficiency.
Cheilytko, Andrii
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Techno-Economic Analysis of Solar Tower Aided Coal-Fired Power Generation System
Energies, 2017 In this paper, we conduct a techno-economic analysis of a 1000 MWe solar tower aided coal-fired power generation system for the whole life cycle. Firstly, the power output (from coal and solar thermal energy) under variable direct normal irradiance and ...
Yong Zhu +3 more
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Point-focus multi-receiver Fresnel loop - Exploring ways to increase the optical efficiency of solar tower systems [PDF]
, 2022 For commercial solar tower systems of relevant size, state of the art of light collection and concentration (LCC) subsystems (heliostat field plus receiver envelope) do not achieve annual optical efficiencies larger than 65%.
Kim, Jin-Soo +3 more
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Design and Development of Simulator for Molten Salt Tower Solar Thermal Power Station
南方能源建设, 2021 [Introduction] In order to solve the problem that the control logic is difficult to verify and the operating personnel lack experience during the construction and daily operation of the molten salt tower solar thermal power station.
QIU Tao, WU Feng, MENG Xiaowei, WANG Wei
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Failure mode analysis on concentrated solar power (CSP) plants : a case study on solar tower power plant [PDF]
, 2016 This thesis is an investigation of critical failure modes of solar tower power system in concentrated solar power (CSP) technology. The thesis evaluated the causes and impacts of failure on the major components and apply the failure Mode and Effect ...
Avapak, Sukunta
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International Journal of Renewable Energy Development, 2016 A prior study on the performance of high-efficient models for a heliostat field and solar receiver at various candidate locations (e.g., certain regions in the south of Turkey) helped determine suitable locations for installing solar tower power plant ...
Raad Kadhim Al-Dualimi +1 more
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Layout optimization of heliostat field based on genetic algorithm [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesIn order to improve the annual average optical efficiency of a tower solar power plant, a simulated heliostat field layout optimization model is constructed using ray tracing method to calculate the shadow shading efficiency.
LIu Yuan, Tang Yi, Cong Weijie
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Reversible Molten Catalytic Methane Cracking Applied to Commercial Solar-Thermal Receivers
Energies, 2020 When driven by sunlight, molten catalytic methane cracking can produce clean hydrogen fuel from natural gas without greenhouse emissions. To design solar methane crackers, a canonical plug flow reactor model was developed that spanned industrially ...
Scott C. Rowe +4 more
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