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Production of biogas through anaerobic digestion of animal manure and slurries as well as of a wide range of digestible organic wastes and agricultural residues, converts these substrates into electricity and heat and offers a natural fertiliser for agriculture. The microbiological process of decomposition of organic matter, in the absence of oxygen takes place in reactors, called digesters. Biogas can be used as a fuel in a gas turbine or burner and can be used in a hybrid solar tower system offering a solution for waste treatment of agricultural and animal residues. A solar tower system consists of a heliostat field, which concentrates direct solar irradiation on an open volumetric central receiver. The receiver heats up ambient air to temperatures of around 700°C. The hot air's heat energy is transferred to a steam Rankine cycle in a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG). The steam drives a steam turbine, which in turn drives a generator for producing electricity. In order to increase the operational hours of a solar tower power plant, a heat storage system and/ or hybridization may be considered. The advantage of solar-fossil hybrid power plants, compared to solar-only systems, lies in low additional investment costs due to an adaptable solar share and reduced technical and economical risks. On sunny days the hybrid system operates in a solar-only mode with the central receiver and on cloudy days and at night with the gas turbine only. As an alternative to methane gas, environmentally neutral biogas can be used for operating the gas turbine. 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Vol. 14 (1998), iss. 1-4. 6th Arab International Solar Energy Conference: Bringing Solar Energy into the Daylight, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 29.03.-01.04.1998}, issn = {1879-0682 (E-Book); 0960-1481 (Print)}, pages = {325 -- 331}, year = {1998}, language = {en} } @article{WemhoenerHafnerSchwarzer2000, author = {Wemh{\"o}ner, Carsten and Hafner, Bernd and Schwarzer, Klemens}, title = {Simulation of solar thermal systems with CARNOT blockset in the environment MATLAB-Simulink}, pages = {1 -- 6}, year = {2000}, language = {en} } @article{MelissSpaete2000, author = {Meliß, Michael and Sp{\"a}te, Frank}, title = {The solar heating system with seasonal storage at the Solar-Campus J{\"u}lich}, series = {Solar energy. Vol. 69 (2000), iss. 6}, journal = {Solar energy. 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