TY - CHAP A1 - Lüpfert, E. A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Price, Henry A1 - Zarza, E. A1 - Kistener, R. ED - Ramos, C. T1 - Towards Standard Performance Analysis for Parabolic Trough Collector Fields T2 - 12th International Symposium Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, October 6-8, 2004, Oaxaca Mexico ; SolarPACES International Symposium, 12 Y1 - 2004 SN - 968-6114-18-1 PB - Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas CY - [s.l.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Aringhoff, R. A1 - Geyer, Michael A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Kistner, Rainer A1 - Nava, P. A1 - Osuna, R. ED - Steinfeld, Aldo T1 - AndaSol : 50MW Solar Plants with 9 Hour Storage for Southern Spain T2 - Proceedings of the 11th SolarPACES International Symposium on Concentrated Solar Power and Chemical Energy Technologies : September 4 - 6, 2002, Zurich, Switzerland / Paul Scherrer Institut, PSI; ETH, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Y1 - 2002 SN - 3-9521409-3-7 SP - 37 EP - 42 PB - Paul Scherrer Inst. CY - Villingen ER - 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 - CHAP A1 - Anthrakidis, Anette A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Schorn, Christian A1 - Schwarzer, Klemens A1 - Wedding, Philipp A1 - Weis, Fabian T1 - Development and Testing of a Novel Method for the Determination of the Efficiency of Concentrating Solar Thermal Collectors T2 - Conference Proceedings Solar World Congress 2015, Daegu, Korea, 08 – 12 November 2015 Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Niederwestberg, Stefan A1 - McLeod, Jacqueline A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard T1 - Development of heat exchanger for high temperature energy storage with bulk materials T2 - AIP Conference Proceedings Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4949106 VL - 1734 IS - 1 SP - 050008-1 EP - 050008-7 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sauerborn, Markus A1 - Liebenstund, Lena A1 - Raue, Markus A1 - Mang, Thomas A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Dueing, Andreas T1 - Analytic method for material aging and quality analyzing to forecast long time stability of plastic micro heliostat components T2 - AIP Conference Proceedings Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4984388 VL - 1850 IS - 1 SP - 030045-1 EP - 030045-8 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rendon, Carlos A1 - Dieckmann, Simon A1 - Weidle, Mathias A1 - Dersch, Jürgen A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Polklas, Thomas A1 - Kuschel, Marcus A1 - Herrmann, Ulf T1 - Retrofitting of existing parabolic trough collector power plants with molten salt tower systems T2 - AIP Conference Proceedings Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5067030 VL - 2033 IS - 1 SP - 030014-1 EP - 030014-8 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Gorzalka, Philip A1 - Dahlke, Dennis A1 - Göttsche, Joachim A1 - Israel, Martin A1 - Patel, Dhruvkumar A1 - Prahl, Christoph A1 - Schmiedt, Jacob Estevam A1 - Frommholz, Dirk A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard A1 - Linkiewicz, Magdalena T1 - Building Tomograph–From Remote Sensing Data of Existing Buildings to Building Energy Simulation Input T2 - EBC, Annex 71, Fifth expert meeting, October 17-19, 2018, Innsbruck, Austria Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Breitbach, Gerd A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - May, Martin A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Herrmann, Ulf 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 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mahdi, Zahra A1 - Rendón, Carlos A1 - Schwager, Christian A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Herrmann, Ulf T1 - Novel concept for indirect solar-heated methane reforming T2 - AIP Conference Proceedings Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5117694 SN - 0094-243X VL - 2126 SP - 180014-1 EP - 180014-7 PB - AIP Publishing CY - Melville, NY ER - TY - CHAP A1 - May, Martin A1 - Breitbach, Gerd A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Latzke, Markus A1 - Bäumer, Klaus A1 - Uhlig, Ralf A1 - Söhn, Matthias A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Herrmann, Ulf T1 - Experimental facility for investigations of wire mesh absorbers for pressurized gases T2 - AIP Conference Proceedings Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5117547 SN - 0094243X VL - 2126 SP - 030035-1 EP - 030035-9 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sattler, Johannes, Christoph A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Caminos, Ricardo Alexander Chico A1 - Mitchell, John C. A1 - Ruiz, Victor C. A1 - Kalogirou, Soteris A1 - Ktistis, Panayiotis K. A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Herrmann, Ulf T1 - Dynamic simulation model of a parabolic trough collector system with concrete thermal energy storage for process steam generation T2 - AIP Conference Proceedings Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5117663 SN - 0094243X VL - 2126 SP - 150007-1 EP - 150007-8 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schwager, Christian A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Flesch, Robert A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Herrmann, Ulf T1 - Improved efficiency prediction of a molten salt receiver based on dynamic cloud passage simulation 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 EP - 030054-8 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Blanke, Tobias A1 - Dring, Bernd A1 - Vontein, Marius A1 - Kuhnhenne, Markus T1 - Climate Change Mitigation Potentials of Vertical Building Integrated Photovoltaic T2 - 8th International Workshop on Integration of Solar Power into Power Systems : 16-17 October 2018, Stockholm, Sweden Y1 - 2018 SP - 1 EP - 7 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Gedle, Yibekal A1 - Schmitz, Mark A1 - Gielen, Hans A1 - Schmitz, Pascal A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Mahdi, Zahra A1 - Caminos, Ricardo Alexander Chico A1 - Dersch, Jürgen T1 - Analysis of an integrated CSP-PV hybrid power plant T2 - SolarPACES 2020 N2 - In the past, CSP and PV have been seen as competing technologies. Despite massive reductions in the electricity generation costs of CSP plants, PV power generation is - at least during sunshine hours - significantly cheaper. If electricity is required not only during the daytime, but around the clock, CSP with its inherent thermal energy storage gets an advantage in terms of LEC. There are a few examples of projects in which CSP plants and PV plants have been co-located, meaning that they feed into the same grid connection point and ideally optimize their operation strategy to yield an overall benefit. In the past eight years, TSK Flagsol has developed a plant concept, which merges both solar technologies into one highly Integrated CSP-PV-Hybrid (ICPH) power plant. Here, unlike in simply co-located concepts, as analyzed e.g. in [1] – [4], excess PV power that would have to be dumped is used in electric molten salt heaters to increase the storage temperature, improving storage and conversion efficiency. The authors demonstrate the electricity cost sensitivity to subsystem sizing for various market scenarios, and compare the resulting optimized ICPH plants with co-located hybrid plants. Independent of the three feed-in tariffs that have been assumed, the ICPH plant shows an electricity cost advantage of almost 20% while maintaining a high degree of flexibility in power dispatch as it is characteristic for CSP power plants. As all components of such an innovative concept are well proven, the system is ready for commercial market implementation. A first project is already contracted and in early engineering execution. KW - Hybrid energy system KW - Power plants KW - Electricity generation KW - Energy storage KW - Associated liquids Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-0-7354-4195-8 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0086236 SN - 1551-7616 (online) SN - 0094-243X (print) N1 - 26th International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems 28 September–2 October 2020 Freiburg, Germany IS - 2445 / 1 PB - AIP conference proceedings / American Institute of Physics CY - Melville, NY ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mahdi, Zahra A1 - Dersch, Jürgen A1 - Schmitz, Pascal A1 - Dieckmann, Simon A1 - Caminos, Ricardo Alexander Chico A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Schwager, Christian A1 - Schmitz, Mark A1 - Gielen, Hans A1 - Gedle, Yibekal A1 - Büscher, Rauno T1 - Technical assessment of Brayton cycle heat pumps for the integration in hybrid PV-CSP power plants T2 - SOLARPACES 2020 N2 - The hybridization of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and Photovoltaics (PV) systems is a promising approach to reduce costs of solar power plants, while increasing dispatchability and flexibility of power generation. High temperature heat pumps (HT HP) can be utilized to boost the salt temperature in the thermal energy storage (TES) of a Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) system from 385 °C up to 565 °C. A PV field can supply the power for the HT HP, thus effectively storing the PV power as thermal energy. Besides cost-efficiently storing energy from the PV field, the power block efficiency of the overall system is improved due to the higher steam parameters. This paper presents a technical assessment of Brayton cycle heat pumps to be integrated in hybrid PV-CSP power plants. As a first step, a theoretical analysis was carried out to find the most suitable working fluid. The analysis included the fluids Air, Argon (Ar), Nitrogen (N2) and Carbon dioxide (CO2). N2 has been chosen as the optimal working fluid for the system. After the selection of the ideal working medium, different concepts for the arrangement of a HT HP in a PV-CSP hybrid power plant were developed and simulated in EBSILON®Professional. The concepts were evaluated technically by comparing the number of components required, pressure losses and coefficient of performance (COP). KW - Solar thermal technologies KW - Hybrid energy system KW - Concentrated solar power KW - Power plants KW - Energy storage Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-0-7354-4195-8 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0086269 SN - 1551-7616 (online) SN - 0094-243X (print) N1 - 26th International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems 28 September–2 October 2020 Freiburg, Germany IS - 2445 / 1 PB - AIP conference proceedings / American Institute of Physics CY - Melville, NY ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zahra, Mahdi A1 - Phani Srujan, Merige A1 - Caminos, Ricardo Alexander Chico A1 - Schmitz, Pascal A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Schmitz, Mark A1 - Gielen, Hans A1 - Gedle, Yibekal A1 - Dersch, Jürgen T1 - Modeling the thermal behavior of solar salt in electrical resistance heaters for the application in PV-CSP hybrid power plants T2 - SOLARPACES 2020 N2 - Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) systems are able to store energy cost-effectively in their integrated thermal energy storage (TES). By intelligently combining Photovoltaics (PV) systems with CSP, a further cost reduction of solar power plants is expected, as well as an increase in dispatchability and flexibility of power generation. PV-powered Resistance Heaters (RH) can be deployed to raise the temperature of the molten salt hot storage from 385 °C up to 565 °C in a Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) plant. To avoid freezing and decomposition of molten salt, the temperature distribution in the electrical resistance heater is investigated in the present study. For this purpose, a RH has been modeled and CFD simulations have been performed. The simulation results show that the hottest regions occur on the electric rod surface behind the last baffle. A technical optimization was performed by adjusting three parameters: Shell-baffle clearance, electric rod-baffle clearance and number of baffles. After the technical optimization was carried out, the temperature difference between the maximum temperature and the average outlet temperature of the salt is within the acceptable limits, thus critical salt decomposition has been avoided. Additionally, the CFD simulations results were analyzed and compared with results obtained with a one-dimensional model in Modelica. KW - Solar thermal technologies KW - Hybrid energy system KW - Concentrated solar power KW - Energy storage KW - Photovoltaics Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-0-7354-4195-8 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0086268 SN - 1551-7616 (online) SN - 0094-243X (print) N1 - 26th International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems 28 September–2 October 2020 Freiburg, Germany IS - 2445 / 1 PB - AIP conference proceedings / American Institute of Physics CY - Melville, NY ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Caminos, Ricardo Alexander Chico A1 - Schmitz, Pascal A1 - Atti, Vikrama A1 - Mahdi, Zahra A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Sattler, Johannes Christoph A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Hilger, Patrick A1 - Dieckmann, Simon T1 - Development of a micro heliostat and optical qualification assessment with a 3D laser scanning method T2 - SOLARPACES 2020 N2 - The Solar-Institut Jülich (SIJ) and the companies Hilger GmbH and Heliokon GmbH from Germany have developed a small-scale cost-effective heliostat, called “micro heliostat”. Micro heliostats can be deployed in small-scale concentrated solar power (CSP) plants to concentrate the sun's radiation for electricity generation, space or domestic water heating or industrial process heat. In contrast to conventional heliostats, the special feature of a micro heliostat is that it consists of dozens of parallel-moving, interconnected, rotatable mirror facets. The mirror facets array is fixed inside a box-shaped module and is protected from weathering and wind forces by a transparent glass cover. The choice of the building materials for the box, tracking mechanism and mirrors is largely dependent on the selected production process and the intended application of the micro heliostat. Special attention was paid to the material of the tracking mechanism as this has a direct influence on the accuracy of the micro heliostat. The choice of materials for the mirror support structure and the tracking mechanism is made in favor of plastic molded parts. A qualification assessment method has been developed by the SIJ in which a 3D laser scanner is used in combination with a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). For the validation of this assessment method, a single mirror facet was scanned and the slope deviation was computed. KW - Concentrated solar power KW - Electricity generation KW - Measuring instruments KW - Heliostats KW - Global change Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-0-7354-4195-8 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0086262 SN - 1551-7616 (online) SN - 0094-243X (print) N1 - 26th International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems 28 September–2 October 2020 Freiburg, Germany IS - 2445 / 1 PB - AIP conference proceedings / American Institute of Physics CY - Melville, NY ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Niederwestberg, Stefan A1 - Schneider, Falko A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Herrmann, Ulf T1 - Introduction to a direct irradiated transparent tube particle receiver T2 - SOLARPACES 2020 N2 - New materials often lead to innovations and advantages in technical applications. This also applies to the particle receiver proposed in this work that deploys high-temperature and scratch resistant transparent ceramics. With this receiver design, particles are heated through direct-contact concentrated solar irradiance while flowing downwards through tubular transparent ceramics from top to bottom. In this paper, the developed particle receiver as well as advantages and disadvantages are described. Investigations on the particle heat-up characteristics from solar irradiance were carried out with DEM simulations which indicate that particle temperatures can reach up to 1200 K. Additionally, a simulation model was set up for investigating the dynamic behavior. A test receiver at laboratory scale has been designed and is currently being built. In upcoming tests, the receiver test rig will be used to validate the simulation results. The design and the measurement equipment is described in this work. KW - Solar irradiance KW - Ceramics Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-0-7354-4195-8 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0086735 SN - 1551-7616 (online) SN - 0094-243X (print) N1 - 26th International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems 28 September–2 October 2020 Freiburg, Germany IS - 2445 / 1 PB - AIP conference proceedings / American Institute of Physics CY - Melville, NY ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Neumann, Hannah A1 - Adam, Mario A1 - Backes, Klaus A1 - Börner, Martin A1 - Clees, Tanja A1 - Doetsch, Christian A1 - Glaeser, Susanne A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - May, Johanna A1 - Rosenthal, Florian A1 - Sauer, Dirk Uwe A1 - Stadler, Ingo T1 - Development of open educational resources for renewable energy and the energy transition process T2 - ISES SWC 2021 N2 - The dissemination of knowledge about renewable energies is understood as a social task with the highest topicality. The transfer of teaching content on renewable energies into digital open educational resources offers the opportunity to significantly accelerate the implementation of the energy transition. Thus, in the here presented project six German universities create open educational resources for the energy transition. These materials are available to the public on the internet under a free license. So far there has been no publicly accessible, editable media that cover entire learning units about renewable energies extensively and in high technical quality. Thus, in this project, the content that remains up-to-date for a longer period is appropriately prepared in terms of media didactics. The materials enable lecturers to provide students with in-depth training about technologies for the energy transition. In a particular way, the created material is also suitable for making the general public knowledgeable about the energy transition with scientifically based material. KW - energy transition KW - renewable energies KW - open educational resources KW - dissemination KW - digitalization Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.18086/swc.2021.47.03 N1 - ISES Solar World Congress, virtual conference 25-29 October 2021 PB - International Solar Energy Society CY - Freiburg ER -