Comparison of Potential Sites in China for Erecting a Hybrid Solar Tower Power Plant with Air Receiver

Abstract

In this work transient simulation results of a hybrid solar tower power plant with open volumetric receiver technology are presented for several locations in China. The open volumetric receiver uses ambient air as heat transfer fluid and the hybridization can be realized with additional firing. The solar receiver and/or the additional firing heat up the air which is then passed through a boiler of a conventional Rankine cycle. The simulated plant is based on the configuration of the solar thermal test and demonstration power plant located in Jülich (STJ). The investigated plant operates in hybrid -parallel mode which allows a constant power generation. The meteorological data for the different sites in China was taken from the software Meteonorm in a time resolution of one hour. The solar tower power simulation tool was developed in the simulation environment MATLAB/Simulink.

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“…The mathematical model of the Steam Generation System of Solar two power tower plant with lumped parameter method is developed by Zhang et al (2019). A transient simulation results of a hybrid solar tower power plant with an open volumetric receiver technology for different cities in China presented by Latzke et al (2015). The open volumetric receiver uses air as a Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF).…”