Solar thermal power plants are composed of three processes: collection and conversion of solar radiation into heat, conversion of heat to electricity, and thermal energy storage to mitigate the transient effects of solar radiation on the performance of the system. There ...
Parabolic trough solar collectors: A sustainable and efficient …
Parabolic trough solar collectors are a type of solar thermal collector that can be used to generate electricity. This paper discusses the potential advantages and …
Recent Developments in Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power …
Global concern for depleting fossil fuel reserves have been compelling for evolving power generation options using renewable energy sources. The solar energy happens to be a potential source for running the power plants among renewable energy sources. Integrated Solar Combined Cycle (ISCC) power plants have gained popularity …
Concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies: Status and analysis
Concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies: Status and ...
Assessment of a Solar-Powered Trigeneration Plant Integrated …
3 · Numerous studies have investigated the integration of solar power generation with desalination and cooling applications. ... Thermal and thermodynamic optimization of the performance of a large aperture width parabolic trough solar collector using gaseous and supercritical CO2 as heat transfer fluids ... Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 38 ...
Comparison of tower and trough solar thermal power plant …
Solar thermal power generation, which is dominated by tower and trough technology routes, has received extensive attention as an emerging clean energy power gen Xin Li, Jianxiang Jin, Dutang Yang, Neng Xu, Yina Wang, Xiaoling Mi; Comparison of tower and trough solar thermal power plant efficiencies in different …
Heat transfer fluids in parabolic trough collector (PTC ...
Numerical analysis of latent heat thermal energy storage using encapsulated phase change material for solar thermal power plant. ... between the use of concentrating and non-concentrating solar collectors in solar aided power generation systems ... and numerical simulation of a parabolic trough collector: A case study in …
Heat storage design and performance analysis of a parabolic trough ...
There is still considerable potential for the exploitation of solar energy. As the most mature and low-cost large-scale solar thermal power generation technology [2], parabolic trough solar thermal power generation technology is gradually being commercialized [3], while the overall plant efficiency is still fluctuating in the range of …
Economic analysis of power generation from parabolic trough solar thermal plants for the Mediterranean region—A case …
Request PDF | On Dec 1, 2009, Andreas Poullikkas published Economic analysis of power generation from parabolic trough solar thermal plants for the Mediterranean region—A case study for the ...
Parabolic-trough concentrating solar power systems
This chapter gives an overview of the parabolic-trough collector (PTC) technology, which has achieved a high degree of maturity. It includes a brief history of the technology, describing the first large solar thermal power plants with PTC (the SEGS plants), the main parameters and basic equations of a typical PTC, design criteria to …
Economic analysis of power generation from parabolic trough solar ...
DOI: 10.1016/J.RSER.2009.03.014 Corpus ID: 109516383; Economic analysis of power generation from parabolic trough solar thermal plants for the Mediterranean region--A case study for the island of Cyprus
Transient heat transfer performance prediction using a machine …
The schematic diagram of a parabolic trough solar thermal power generation cycle is shown in Fig. 1.When enough solar irradiance is available, superheated steam is generated by the preheater-evaporator and superheater as shown in Fig. 1-a.The preheater-evaporator and superheater consist of multiple parabolic trough solar collectors.
Preliminary analysis of a parabolic trough concentrating solar …
Parabolic trough concentrating (PTC) solar power generation is the most technologically mature way of concentrating solar power technology. PTC plants …
Comparison of tower and trough solar thermal power plant …
This paper takes the solar thermal power generation system with installed capacity of 50 MW and 100 MW as examples and uses SAM software to analyze …
Heat storage design and performance analysis of a parabolic trough thermal power generation …
The SEGS VI parabolic trough plant in the U.S. is a typical CSP scheme. Based on the energy cascade utilization principle, the authors once proposed the structure of sectional heating of the solar field, and designed the …
Experimental Investigation of Parabolic Trough Solar Collector Thermal ...
Abstract This experimental study presents the thermal efficiency enhancement of a parabolic trough solar collector (PTSC) system using different refractive surfaces and various mass flow rates. Two PTSC models were used to compare the aluminium sheet (AS) and silver chrome film (SCF) under the weather conditions of …
Estimation of the energy production of a parabolic trough solar thermal ...
For Dynamic model studies, García et al. [17] propose a detailed performance model to facilitate the prediction of a parabolic trough solar thermal power plant''s electricity output, including a thermal energy storage process. The simulation results were compared with measurements resulting from experiments during 42 days in summer …
(PDF) Parabolic trough solar collectors: A sustainable and …
Parabolic trough solar collectors are a type of solar thermal collector that can be used to generate electricity. This paper discusses the potential advantages and …
Performance model for parabolic trough solar thermal power plants with thermal …
From the available CSP technologies, parabolic trough is the most widespread today, with around 29 plants in operation and around 1220 MW e of installed power in the world, corresponding to 96.3% of the total operational concentrating solar power as of the beginning of 2011 (see Fig. 1).).
Advances in Parabolic Trough Solar Power Technology
Parabolic trough solar technology is the most proven and lowest cost large-scale solar power technology available today, primarily because of the nine large commercial-scale solar power plants that are operating in the California Mojave Desert. These plants, developed by Luz International Limited and referred to as Solar Electric …
Performance Analysis and Optimization of a Parabolic …
The Middle East is one among the areas of the world that receive high amounts of direct solar radiation. As such, the region holds a promising potential to leverage clean energy. Owing to rapid …
Parabolic-trough solar collectors and their applications
Solar radiation is converted into thermal energy in the focus of solar thermal concentrating systems. These systems are classified by their focus geometry as …
Performance analysis of a novel combined solar trough and tower …
Hu and Yang then proposed the solar-aided coal-fired power generation concept using solar heating at a ... is pumped through the parabolic trough and heated. The thermal energy of the HTF is released and transferred to the steam cycle in a heat exchanger. ... and stand-alone concentrating solar power (CSP): a South African case …
Wind and structural loads data measured on parabolic trough solar collectors at an operational power …
Wind loading is a primary contributor to structural design costs of concentrating solar-thermal power collectors, such as heliostats and parabolic troughs. These structures must resist the ...
Design and Fabrication of Parabolic Trough Solar Collector for Thermal Energy …
The high-performance EuroTrough parabolic trough collector models ET100 and ET150 have been developed for the utility scale generation of solar steam for process heat applications and solar power ...
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Preliminary analysis of a parabolic trough concentrating solar power …
In addition, RC can also be used as the supplemental cooling system of the thermal power plant to achieve a good cooling effect and reduce water consumption [].Aili et al. [] introduced RC into a 500-MW e combined-cycle-gas-turbine plant and individually discussed the impact of RC on the water consumption of the cooling tower …
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Assessing parabolic trough collectors and linear Fresnel reflectors ...
Concentrating solar power (CSP) systems offer promising solutions for harnessing solar energy. Parabolic trough collectors (PTC) are prevalent in CSP, but direct steam generation (DSG) in solar fields is an innovative alternative that eliminates the need for thermal oils.
Energy, Exergy, and Economic Optimization of Parabolic Trough …
In solar thermal power plants, parabolic trough collector (PTC) is among the technology. The PTC collector consists of a linear parabolic mirror, which …
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