- Title
- Evaluation of power block arrangements for 100MW scale concentrated solar thermal power generation using top-down design
- Creator
- Post, Alexander; Beath, Andrew; Sauret, Emilie; Persky, Rodney
- Relation
- SOLARPACES 2016: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems. Proceedings of the 22nd SOLARPACES 2016 International Conference [presented in AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1850] (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 11-14 October, 2016) p. 030039-1-030039-8
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4984382
- Publisher
- AIP Publishing
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Concentrated solar thermal power generation poses a unique situation for power block selection, in which a capital intensive heat source is subject to daily and seasonal fluctuations in intensity. In this study, a method is developed to easily evaluate the favourability of different power blocks for converting the heat supplied by a concentrated solar thermal plant into power at the 100MWe scale based on several key parameters. The method is then applied to a range of commercially available power cycles that operate over different temperatures and efficiencies, and with differing capital costs, each with performance and economic parameters selected to be typical of their technology type, as reported in literature. Using this method, the power cycle is identified among those examined that is most likely to result in a minimum levelised cost of energy of a solar thermal plant.
- Subject
- solar thermal power; power blocks; solar thermal power plant; http://dx.doi.org/100MWe scale; power cycles
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1396093
- Identifier
- uon:33989
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780735415225
- Rights
- This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1850 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4984382
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
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