- In this work transient simulation results of a hybrid solar tower power plant with openvolumetric receiver technology are presented for several locations in China. The openvolumetric receiver uses ambient air as heat transfer fluid and the hybridization can be realized with additional firing. The solar receiver and/or the additional firing heat up the air which is then passed through a boiler of a conventional Rankine cycle. The simulated plantis based on the configuration of the solar thermal test and demonstration power plant located in Jülich (STJ). The investigatedplant operates in hybrid - parallelmode which allows a constant power generation. The meteorological data for the different sites in China was taken from the software Meteonorm in a time resolution of one hour. The solar tower power simulation tool was developed in the simulation environment MATLAB/Simulink.
