Concentrated solar power plant modeling for power system studies

L Yao, Y Wang, X Xiao - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the continuous advancement of energy transformation, the flexibility of the power
system is becoming increasingly important due to the intermittent and uncertain nature of …

Proposing an innovative and explicit economic criterion for all passive heat transfer enhancement techniques of heat exchangers

HS Dizaji, S Pourhedayat, F Aldawi, H Moria, AE Anqi… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Numerous passive heat transfer enhancement techniques (including various types of
turbulators) have been proposed before for heat exchangers by many researchers. Their …

Review on performance analysis of the power block in concentrated solar power plants

H Yan, A Wang, D Chong, M Liu, J Liu… - Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Concentrated solar power (CSP) is a promising option to generate flexible and green power
for the power grid. Power block is important to enhance energy efficiency and flexibility of …

Assessment of the impact of thermal energy storage operation strategy on parabolic trough solar power plant performance

H Bouziane, B Benhamou - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This numerical study aims at assessing the impact of the thermal energy storage (TES)
operation strategy on the performance of a parabolic trough concentrated solar power plant …

Annual measured and simulated thermal performance analysis of a hybrid solar district heating plant with flat plate collectors and parabolic trough collectors in series

Z Tian, B Perers, S Furbo, J Fan - Applied Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Flat plate collectors have relatively low efficiency at the typical supply temperatures of district
heating networks (70–95° C). Parabolic trough collectors retain their high efficiency at these …

Design and optimization of a novel high temperature heat exchanger for waste heat cascade recovery from exhaust flue gases

P Zhang, T Ma, WD Li, GY Ma, QW Wang - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The waste heat of high temperature exhaust flue gases is widely distributed in many
industrial processes. Recovery of waste heat is of great significance to energy saving and …

[HTML][HTML] Thermodynamic and techno-economic analysis of a direct thermal oil vaporization solar power system

P Li, J Ye, J Li, Y Wang, X Jiang, T Qian, G Pei, X Liu - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
A unique direct thermal oil vaporization solar power system employing cascade organic-
steam Rankine cycle is proposed. The oil is a mixture of biphenyl and diphenyl oxide, and it …

Steam generation system operation optimization in parabolic trough concentrating solar power plants under cloudy conditions

A Wang, J Liu, S Zhang, M Liu, J Yan - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Parabolic trough concentrating solar power with indirect thermal energy storage, as a
promising application of solar energy, has been widely used in concentrating solar power …

Modeling and dynamic simulation of a steam generation system for a parabolic trough solar power plant

X Li, E Xu, L Ma, S Song, L Xu - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
In a parabolic trough solar power plant, the steam generation system is the junction of the
heat transfer fluid circuit and the water/steam circuit. Due to the discontinuous nature of solar …

Influence of the steam generator on the exergetic and exergoeconomic analysis of solar tower plants

J Gómez-Hernández, PA González-Gómez… - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Solar power tower plants differ from conventional power plants in the steam generator
design due to the higher heat duty. In this work, the influence of the steam generator heat …