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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.

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Von herausragender Bedeutung für den Einsatz von Nickel‐Basis‐Legierungen in einkristallinem Zustand für die Anwendung als Turbinen‐Laufschaufel sind die dynamischen Festigkeiten und die Kriecheigenschaften. Es wird in Beispielen an den Werkstoffen CMSX6 und SRR99 aufgezeigt, daß die Schwingfestigkeit von Mikroporen kontrolliert wird. In diesem Zusammenhang wird auf legierungs‐ und herstelltechnische Einflüsse auf die Porenbildung eingegangen. Die Kriechfestigkeit und die bei mittleren Temperaturen beobachtete Anisotropie des Kriechverhaltens wird dagegen im wesentlichen durch die Morphologie der härteren γ' ‐ Phase und der durch sie gesteuerten Versagensmechanismen beeinflußt. Das stationäre Kriechverhalten läßt sich durch Potenzgesetze beschreiben.

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