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A1 - Kelly, Bruce A1 - Kistner, Rainer A1 - Ortmanns, Winfried A1 - Pitz-Paal, Robert A1 - Price, Henry T1 - Trough integration into power plants—a study on the performance and economy of integrated solar combined cycle systems JF - Energy : the international journal Y1 - 2004 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0360-5442(03)00199-3 SN - 0360-5442 N1 - SolarPACES 2002, Zürich, Switzerland, 4–6 September 2002 VL - 29 IS - 5-6 (Special Issue SolarPaces) SP - 947 EP - 959 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. REFERENCES Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5067069 VL - 2033 IS - Issue 1 PB - AIP Publishing CY - Melville, NY ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Göttsche, Joachim A1 - Hove, T. T1 - Mapping global, diffuse and beam solar radiation over Zimbabwe / T. Hove ; J. Göttsche JF - Renewable energy. 18 (1999), H. 4 Y1 - 1999 SN - 1879-0682 SP - 535 EP - 556 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Göttsche, Joachim T1 - Eldorado summer schools JF - Progress in solar energy education. 3 (1994) Y1 - 1994 SN - 1018-5607 SP - 31 EP - 33 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Göttsche, Joachim A1 - Goetzberger, Adolf A1 - Dengler, J. A1 - Rommel, M. (u.a.) T1 - A new transparently insulated, bifacially irradiated solar flat-plate collector / A. Goetzberger ; J. Dengler ; M. Rommel ; J. Göttsche ; V. Wittwer JF - Solar energy. 49 (1992), H. 5 Y1 - 1992 SN - 0038-092X SP - 403 EP - 411 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Kearney, David W. T1 - Survey of Thermal Energy Storage for Parabolic Trough Power Plants JF - Journal of Solar Energy Engineering Y1 - 2002 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1467601 SN - 1528-8986 (Online) SN - 0199-6231 (Print) VL - 124 IS - 2 SP - 145 EP - 152 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kearney, David W. A1 - Kelly, Bruce A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Cable, R. A1 - Pacheco, J. A1 - Mahoney, R. A1 - Price, Henry A1 - Blake, D. A1 - Nava, P. A1 - Potrovitza, N. T1 - Engineering Aspects of a Molten Salt Heat Transfer Fluid in a Trough Solar Field JF - Energy : the international journal Y1 - 2002 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0360-5442(03)00191-9 SN - 0360-5442 N1 - SolarPACES 2002, Zürich, Switzerland, 4–6 September 2002 VL - 29 IS - 5-6 (Special Issue SolarPaces) SP - 861 EP - 870 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Damm, Marc André A1 - Sauerborn, Markus A1 - Fend, Thomas A1 - Herrmann, Ulf T1 - Optimisation of a urea selective catalytic reduction system with a coated ceramic mixing element JF - Journal of ceramic science and technology Y1 - 2017 SN - 2190-9385 (Print) U6 - https://doi.org/10.4416/JCST2016-00056 SN - 2190-9385 (Online) VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 19 EP - 24 PB - Göller CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Lippke, F. T1 - The influence of transients on the design of DSG solar fields JF - Journal de Physique IV : proceedings Y1 - 1999 SN - 2-86883-402-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1051/jp4:1999377 SN - 1764-7177 (Online) SN - 1155-4339 (Print) VL - 9 IS - PR3 SP - 489 EP - 494 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros T1 - Biogas systems: basics, biogas multifunction, principle of fermentation and hybrid application with a solar tower for the treatment of waste animal manure JF - Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review N2 - Two of the main environmental problems of today’s society are the continuously increasing production of organic wastes as well as the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the related green house effect. A way to solve these problems is the production of biogas. Biogas is a combustible gas consisting of methane, carbon dioxide and small amounts of other gases and trace elements. 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. Hence, the hybrid system is operated to 100% from renewable energy sources Y1 - 2012 SN - 1791-2377 N1 - Special Issue on Renewable Energy Systems VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 48 EP - 55 PB - Kavala Institute of Technology CY - Kavala ER -