Solar Tower Power Plant Performance Characteristics

Pdf on jan 1 2004 johannes petrus pretorius and others published solar tower power plant performance characteristics find read and cite all the research you need on researchgate.

Solar tower power plant performance characteristics.

These tracking mirrors numbering in hundreds to thousands called heliostats can. This paper compares performances of a solar tower aided coal fired power plant a solar tower power plant and a coal fired power plant under different operative conditions. The plant is initially designed for. Msceng mech april 2004 this study investigates energy generation by large scale solar tower power plants.

A power tower system consists of many large sun tracking flat mirrors that focus sunlight on a receiver at the top of a tower. 10 because geothermal and hydropower cost and performance characteristics are specific for each site the table entries show thecost of the least expensive plant that could be built in the northwest region for hydro and great basin region for geothermal where most of the proposed sites are located. Sunshine heats the air beneath a very wide greenhouse like roofed collector structure surrounding the central base of a very tall chimney tower. This study investigates energy generation by large scale solar tower power plants.

7 5 is a newer technology compared to the parabolic solar trough and is more suited for large scale grid connected power plants to be economical. Solar tower aided coal fired power generation system stcg is able to provide high solar utilization efficiency with low coal consumption rate. Solar tower power generation fig. Power towers system as shown in fig.

Pretorius department of mechanical engineering university of stellenbosch private bag x1 7602 matieland south africa thesis. The aim of this research is to design optimize and evaluate the performance of the solar tower st power plant. The solar updraft tower sut is a design concept for a renewable energy power plant for generating electricity from low temperature solar heat. The performance characteristics of a so called reference plant with a 4000 m diameter glass collector roof and a 1500 m high 160 m diameter tower are determined for a site located in south africa.

1 8 is a system that transmits solar irradiation to the receiver mounted on the tower and acquires the high temperature heat transfer medium through multiple heliostats by tracking movement of the sun generating power directly or indirectly through the thermal cycle using a high temperature heat transfer liquid 6.