TY  - CHAP
A1  - Latzke, Markus
A1  - Alexopoulos, Spiros
A1  - Kronhardt, Valentina
A1  - Rendón, Carlos
A1  - Sattler, Johannes, Christoph
T1  - Comparison of Potential Sites in China for Erecting a Hybrid Solar Tower Power Plant with Air Receiver
T2  - Energy Procedia
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.03.142
SN  - 1876-6102
N1  - International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2014, Beijing, China
SP  - 1327
EP  - 1334
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Alexopoulos, Spiros
A1  - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard
T1  - Advances in solar tower technology
JF  - Wiley interdisciplinary reviews : Energy and Environment : WIREs
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wene.217
SN  - 2041-840X
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 19
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Puppe, Michael
A1  - Giuliano, Stefano
A1  - Frantz, Cathy
A1  - Uhlig, Ralf
A1  - Schumacher, Ralph
A1  - Ibraheem, Wagdi
A1  - Schmalz, Stefan
A1  - Waldmann, Barbara
A1  - Guder, Christoph
A1  - Peter, Dennis
A1  - Schwager, Christian
A1  - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José
A1  - Alexopoulos, Spiros
A1  - Spiegel, Michael
A1  - Wortmann, Jürgen
A1  - Hinrichs, Matthias
A1  - Engelhard, Manfred
A1  - Aust, Michael
T1  - Techno-economic optimization of molten salt solar tower plants
JF  - AIP Conference Proceedings art.no. 040033
N2  - 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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U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5067069
VL  - 2033
IS  - Issue 1
PB  - AIP Publishing
CY  - Melville, NY
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Breitbach, Gerd
A1  - Alexopoulos, Spiros
A1  - May, Martin
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T1  - Analysis of volumetric solar radiation absorbers made of wire meshes
T2  - AIP Conference Proceedings
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5117521
SN  - 0094243X
VL  - 2126
SP  - 030009-1
EP  - 030009-6
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TY  - CHAP
A1  - May, Martin
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Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5117547
SN  - 0094243X
VL  - 2126
SP  - 030035-1
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TY  - CHAP
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Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5117663
SN  - 0094243X
VL  - 2126
SP  - 150007-1
EP  - 150007-8
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TY  - CHAP
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T2  - AIP Conference Proceedings
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-0-7354-1866-0
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5117566
VL  - 2126
IS  - 1
SP  - 030054-1
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ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
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A1  - Alexopoulos, Spiros
A1  - Dümmler, Andreas
A1  - Maddineni, S. K.
T1  - Multi-Mirror Array Calculations With Optical Error
N2  - The optical performance of a 2-axis solar concentrator was simulated with the COMSOL Multiphysics® software. The concentrator consists of a mirror array, which was created using the application builder. The mirror facets are preconfigured to form a focal point. During tracking all mirrors are moved simultaneously in a coupled mode by 2 motors in two axes, in order to keep the system in focus with the moving sun. Optical errors on each reflecting surface were implemented in combination with the solar angular cone of ± 4.65 mrad. As a result, the intercept factor of solar radiation that is available to the receiver was calculated as a function of the transversal and longitudinal angles of incidence. In addition, the intensity distribution on the receiver plane was calculated as a function of the incidence angles.
KW  - solar process heat
KW  - concentrating collector
KW  - raytracing
KW  - point-focussing system
Y1  - 2019
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Sattler, Johannes Christoph
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A1  - Ürlings, Nicolas
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A1  - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José
A1  - Herrmann, Ulf
T1  - Dynamic simulation tool for a performance evaluation and sensitivity study of a parabolic trough collector system with concrete thermal energy storage
T2  - AIP Conference Proceedings 2303
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0029277
SN  - 0094-243X
SP  - 160004
PB  - American Institute of Physics
CY  - Melville, NY
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Sattler, Johannes, Christoph
A1  - Caminos, Ricardo Alexander Chico
A1  - Ürlings, Nicolas
A1  - Dutta, Siddharth
A1  - Ruiz, Victor
A1  - Kalogirou, Soteris
A1  - Ktistis, Panayiotis
A1  - Agathokleous, Rafaela
A1  - Jung, Christian
A1  - Alexopoulos, Spiros
A1  - Atti, Vikrama Nagababu
A1  - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José
A1  - Herrmann, Ulf
T1  - Operational experience and behaviour of a parabolic trough collector system with concrete thermal energy storage for process steam generation in Cyprus
T2  - AIP Conference Proceedings
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0029278
IS  - 2303
SP  - 140004-1
EP  - 140004-10
ER  -