Economic potential of solar thermal power plants with direct steam generation compared to HTF plants

Proceedings of the ASME 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability 2009, ES2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 663-671

  Feldhoff, Jan Fabian ^a   Benitez, Daniel ^b   Eck, Markus ^a   Riffelmann, Klaus Jürgen ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Flagsol GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direct steam generation; Electricity cost; Parabolic trough; Solar thermal power plant; System comparison

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER TUBES; AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; CALIFORNIA; DIRECT STEAM GENERATION; ECONOMIC POTENTIALS; ELECTRICITY COSTS; HEAT TRANSFER FLUIDS; LEC; LEVELIZED ELECTRICITY COST; PARABOLIC TROUGH; PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTORS; PARAMETER COMPARISON; PROJECT SITE; REFERENCE SYSTEMS; SATURATION TEMPERATURE; SOLAR ENERGY GENERATING SYSTEMS; SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS; STEAM PARAMETERS; STEAM PRESSURES; STEAM TEMPERATURE; SYNTHETIC OIL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; YIELD ANALYSIS;

COSTS; HEAT TRANSFER; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR HEATING; STEAM; STEAM GENERATORS; STEAM POWER PLANTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 77953774797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2009-90298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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