Parabolic Trough Collector Cost Update for the System Advisor Model (SAM)

Kurup, Parthiv; Turchi, Craig

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“…(NREL 2012). Reflectech Plus is laminated to 0.05-in-thick aluminum panels to become a slideable mirror panel, at present used in the SkyTrough parabolic trough (Kurup and Turchi 2015a).…”

Section: Global Commodity Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…NREL recently estimated the installed cost of a representative CSP parabolic trough plant in Arizona, with a 100-MWe solar field (large enough to accommodate 6 h of molten salt TES), parabolic troughs, and synthetic HTF (Kurup and Turchi 2015a). This study updated earlier cost benchmarking (Turchi 2010).…”

Section: Global Commodity Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Solar field costs are also impacted by the volatility in commodity prices and global commodity dynamics. For example, the modeled SkyTrough installed cost would rise from $170/m 2 to nearly $210/m 2 if the aluminum alloy cost was $1.70/lb instead of $1.03/lb (Kurup and Turchi 2015a). The manufacturing location for specific components such as the steel structures (as reflected by industry practices) also made a significant difference in the overall modeled installed cost, with a nearly 30% savings realized from sourcing Indian fabricated steel structures (e.g., galvanized pylons) than from U.S. market suppliers.…”

Section: Global Commodity Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the Path to SunShot. Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in U.S. Solar Manufacturing

Chung

Horowitz

Kurup

2016

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Preface The U.S. Department of Energy launched the SunShot Initiative in 2011 with the goal of making solar electricity cost-competitive with conventionally generated electricity by 2020. At the time this meant reducing photovoltaic and concentrating solar power prices by approximately 75%relative to 2010 costs-across the residential, commercial, and utility-scale sectors. To examine the implications of this ambitious goal, the Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) published the SunShot Vision Study in 2012. The study projected that achieving the SunShot price-reduction targets could result in solar meeting roughly 14% of U.S. electricity demand by 2030 and 27% by 2050-while reducing fossil fuel use, cutting emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, creating solar-related jobs, and lowering consumer electricity bills. The SunShot Vision Study also acknowledged, however, that realizing the solar price and deployment targets would face a number of challenges. Both evolutionary and revolutionary technological changes would be required to hit the cost targets, as well as the capacity to manufacture these improved technologies at scale in the U.S. Additionally, operating the U.S. transmission and distribution grids with increasing quantities of solar energy would require advances in grid-integration technologies and techniques. Serious consideration would also have to be given to solar siting, regulation, and water use. Finally, substantial new financial resources and strategies would need to be directed toward solar deployment of this magnitude in a relatively short period of time. Still the study suggested that the resources required to overcome these challenges were well within the capabilities of the public and private sectors. SunShot-level price reductions, the study concluded, could accelerate the evolution toward a cleaner, more costeffective and more secure U.S. energy system. That was the assessment in 2012. Today, at the halfway mark to the SunShot Initiative's 2020 target date, it is a good time to take stock: How much progress has been made? What have we learned? What barriers and opportunities must still be addressed to ensure that solar technologies achieve cost parity in 2020 and realize their full potential in the decades beyond? To answer these questions, SETO launched the On the Path to SunShot series in early 2015 in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and with contributions from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). The series of technical reports focuses on the areas of grid integration, technology improvements, finance and policy evolution, and environment impacts and benefits. The resulting reports examine key topics that must be addressed to achieve the SunShot Initiative's price-reduction and deployment goals. The On the Path to SunShot series includes the following reports: • Emerging Issues and Challenges with Integrating High Levels of Solar i...

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“…(NREL 2012). Reflectech Plus is laminated to 0.05-in-thick aluminum panels to become a slideable mirror panel, at present used in the SkyTrough parabolic trough (Kurup and Turchi 2015a).…”

Section: Global Commodity Supply Chainmentioning

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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2016

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“…The cost is estimated for the installed hybrid solar system per unit of parabolic trough aperture area ($/m 2 ) using a bottom-up approach as $283 /m 2 as shown in Table 5 including all solar field materials, labor installation, and assembly. Our analysis is based on the baseline cost for parabolic trough solar fields in the United States within U.S Department of Energy NREL's System Advisor Model (SAM) [43], [44]. The cost of GaAs single junction cells with 29% efficiency is based on NREL's long-term estimation [45].…”

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Novel double-stage high-concentrated solar hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) collector with nonimaging optics and GaAs solar cells reflector

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A novel double stage high-concentration hybrid solar photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) collector using nonimaging optics and world record thin film single-junction gallium arsenide (GaAs) solar cells has been developed. We present a detailed design and simulation of the system, experimental setup, prototype, system performance, and economic analysis. The system uses a parabolic trough (primary concentrator) to focus sunlight towards a secondary nonimaging compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) to simultaneously generate electricity from single junction GaAs solar cells, as well as high temperature dispatchable heat. This study is novel in that the solar cells inside the vacuum tube act as specular mirrors for lower energy photons to maximize the system exergy, and (b) secondary concentrator allows the thermal component to reach a concentration ratio ~60X, which is significantly higher than conventional PV/T concentration ratios. The maximum outlet temperature reached was 365ºC, and on average the thermal efficiency of the experiment was around 37%. The maximum electrical efficiency was around 8%. The total system electricity generation is around 25% of incoming DNI, by assuming the high temperature stream is used to power a steam turbine. The installed system cost per unit of parabolic trough aperture area is $283.10 per m 2 .

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“…The value from Ref [19]. has been adapted to account for additional expenses for the ASE receiver tubes as per Ref [12]…”

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Identification of optimum molten salts for use as heat transfer fluids in parabolic trough CSP plants. A techno-economic comparative optimization

Pan¹,

Ferruzza²,

Guédez³

et al. 2018

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Parabolic trough power plants using thermal oil as heat transfer fluid are the most mature concentrating solar power technology and state of the art. To further increase their efficiency and lower costs, molten salts can be used as heat transfer fluid. This results in higher operating temperature differences for improved cycle efficiencies and enables direct thermal energy storage at lower costs due to omission of the oil-to-salt heat exchanger and the need for smaller storage sizes. As a variety of salts are available to choose from, this study uses a multi-objective optimization to identify the most suitable heat transfer fluid for three locations in South Africa, Spain and Chile. The lowest values for the levelized costs of electricity (LCOE) can be found in Chile using Solar Salt as heat transfer fluid (75.0 $/MWhe). Generally, Solar Salt offers the lowest LCOE values followed by thermal oil and Hitec. The results also suggest that the choice of the heat transfer fluid is dependent on the direct normal irradiance (DNI) at each location. Thermal oil is competitive with Solar Salt in small systems at locations with low DNI values, whereas Hitec can be cheaper than thermal oil in large systems at locations with high DNI. Furthermore, it is also investigated at which freeze alert temperature set point the activation of the freeze protection system is optimal. The results indicate that this temperature should be chosen close to the solar field inlet temperature for small systems, while it can be lowered significantly for large systems to reduce electricity consumption from the freeze protection system.

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Parabolic Trough Collector Cost Update for the System Advisor Model (SAM)

Cited by 78 publications

References 12 publications

On the Path to SunShot. Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in U.S. Solar Manufacturing

On the Path to SunShot. Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in U.S. Solar Manufacturing

Novel double-stage high-concentrated solar hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) collector with nonimaging optics and GaAs solar cells reflector

Identification of optimum molten salts for use as heat transfer fluids in parabolic trough CSP plants. A techno-economic comparative optimization

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