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Annual performance analysis and optimization of a solar tower aided coal-fired power plant
摘要： The integration of solar energy into coal-fired power plants has been proven as a potential approach in the utilization of solar energy to reduce coal consumption. Moreover, solar augmentation offers low cost and low risk alternatives to stand-alone solar thermal power plants. In this study, the annual performance of a solar tower aided coal-fired power (STACP) system is investigated, and the influence of thermal storage system capacity on the annual solar generating power and annual solar-to-electricity efficiency is explored. The thermal storage system capacity is optimized to obtain the lowest levelized cost of electricity (LCOE). At the same time, the influence and sensitivity of several important economic factors are explored and assessed. Results demonstrate that compared to a coal-fired power system, the reduction in the annual average coal consumption rate of the STACP system with high direct normal irradiance (DNI), medium DNI, and low DNI are 5.79, 4.52, and 3.22 g/kWh, respectively. At a minimum, the annual coal consumption can be reduced by 14,000 t in a 600 MWe power generation unit. Because the same solar field is considered under different DNI conditions, the LCOE in the high DNI, medium DNI, and low DNI scenarios are all fairly similar (6.37, 6.40, and 6.41 ￠/kWh, respectively). When the solar multiple is 3.0, the optimal thermal storage capacity of the STACP system, with high, medium, and low DNIs are 6.73, 4.42, and 2.21 h, respectively. The sensitivity analysis shows that the change in economic parameters exerts more influence on the STACP system with the high DNI compared with the other two scenarios.
关键词： Thermal energy storage capacity,Solar multiple,Annual performance,Optimization,Solar tower aided coal-fired power plant
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Advances in Concentrating Solar Thermal Research and Technology || Advanced control strategies to maximize ROI and the value of the concentrating solar thermal (CST) plant to the grid
摘要： There are two main drawbacks to concentrating solar thermal energy systems: (1) the resulting energy costs are not yet competitive and (2) solar energy is not always available when needed. Considerable research efforts are being devoted to techniques that may help to overcome these drawbacks; control is one of those techniques [1]. One of the main challenges identified by the US National Academy of Engineering is to make solar energy economical [2]. This issue can be addressed by reducing investment and operating costs and increasing the solar plant performance [3]. Advanced control techniques can help to reduce operating costs and increase the solar plant performance. This chapter describes two examples of how advanced control techniques can help to optimize operation of solar plants and, in consequence, maximize the return of investment (ROI).
关键词： advanced control strategies,solar tower plants,solar trough plants,concentrating solar thermal,ROI
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Design, optimization and performance comparison of solar tower and photovoltaic power plants
摘要： This paper compares two main technologies of solar to electrical energy conversion, namely solar tower (ST) and photovoltaic (PV). For a fair comparison, a 100 MW same sized ST and PV plants are designed for a region with very good direct normal irradiance (DNI) and global horizontal irradiance (GHI). The initial design of the ST plant is optimized for solar multiple and thermal energy storage hours, and the PV plant is optimized for the optimal distance between parallel PV arrays. The ST plant has superior annual energy output of 513040.16 MWh compared to 270754.6 MWh from PV plant and capacity utilization factor of 58.6% in comparison to 30.9% from PV plant. On the contrary, the land use factor and solar to electric ef?ciency (SEE) of the PV plant is superior to ST plant while levelized cost of energy of ST plant is 2.83 times higher than the PV plant. Although ST plant has superior technical performance but way better economic performance of PV plant makes it the stand out solar to electrical energy technology for a location with promising GHI and DNI. This paper provides very useful guidelines for the policymakers to select a particular technology for the future solar-based power generation projects.
关键词： Levelized cost of energy,Photovoltaic,Solar energy,DNI,Solar tower,GHI
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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AIP Conference Proceedings [Author(s) SolarPACES 2017: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems - Santiago, Chile (26–29 September 2017)] - Techno-economic optimization of molten salt solar tower plants
摘要： In this paper the results of a techno-economic analysis of improved and optimized molten salt solar tower plants (MSSTP plants) are presented. The potential improvements that were analyzed include different receiver designs, different designs of the HTF-system and plant control, increased molten salt temperatures (up to 640°C) and multi-tower systems. Detailed technological and economic models of the solar field, solar receiver and high temperature fluid system (HTF-system) were developed and used to find potential improvements compared to a reference plant based on Solar Two technology and up-to-date cost estimations. The annual yield model calculates the annual outputs and the LCOE of all variants. An improved external tubular receiver and improved HTF-system achieves a significant decrease of LCOE compared to the reference. This is caused by lower receiver cost as well as improvements of the HTF-system and plant operation strategy, significantly reducing the plant own consumption. A novel star receiver shows potential for further cost decrease. The cavity receiver concepts result in higher LCOE due to their high investment cost, despite achieving higher efficiencies. Increased molten salt temperatures seem possible with an adapted, closed loop HTF-system and achieve comparable results to the original improved system (with 565°C) under the given boundary conditions. In this analysis all multi tower systems show lower economic viability compared to single tower systems, caused by high additional cost for piping connections and higher cost of the receivers.
关键词： receiver designs,HTF-system,molten salt solar tower plants,plant control,techno-economic analysis,increased molten salt temperatures,multi-tower systems
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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AIP Conference Proceedings [Author(s) SolarPACES 2017: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems - Santiago, Chile (26–29 September 2017)] - Point-focus multi-receiver Fresnel loop – Exploring ways to increase the optical efficiency of solar tower systems
摘要： 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%. Achieving optical efficiencies substantially higher than that requires departing from the traditional mono-tower design. Although multi-tower systems were identified long time ago as candidates to achieve high annual optical efficiencies, so far no multi-tower concept has emerged as a clear alternative to the mono-tower system. In this article, we introduce a variant of the multi-tower concept that combines the modularity and high land coverage of linear focusing technologies with the low thermal losses and high operating temperatures of solar tower technology, and overall represents a disruptive departure from the traditional mono-tower design.
关键词： heliostat field,solar tower systems,optical efficiency,multi-receiver Fresnel loop
更新于2025-09-10 09:29:36
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AIP Conference Proceedings [Author(s) SolarPACES 2017: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems - Santiago, Chile (26–29 September 2017)] - Cavity losses estimation in CSP applications
摘要： Estimations of convection and radiation cavity losses in two common CSP applications have been analyzed; a cavity in a solar tower plant for high temperature (800 K) and in a down facing cavity in a Fresnel configuration for medium temperature (350 K) applications. An analysis regarding the effect of the configuration, geometry and the presence of wind has been also carried out.
关键词： solar tower plant,Fresnel configuration,convection,radiation,cavity losses,CSP applications
更新于2025-09-09 09:28:46