Assessment of solar power tower driven ultrasupercritical steam cycles applying tubular central receivers with varied heat transfer media

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Singer, Csaba ^a   Buck, Reiner ^a   Pitz Paal, Robert ^a   Müller Steinhagen, Hans ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; ANALYTICAL MODEL; DESIGN POINTS; DIRECT NORMAL IRRADIANCES; EFFICIENCY CHARACTERISTIC; HEAT TRANSFER MEDIA; HIGH TEMPERATURE HEAT TRANSFER; IRRADIATION LEVELS; LEC; LEVELIZED ELECTRICITY COST; MOLTEN SALT; OPTIMAL VALUES; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PERFORMANCE BASED; POWER LEVELS; REAL MEASUREMENTS; REDUCTION POTENTIAL; ROADMAP; SCALE-UP; SOLAR POWER TOWER; SOLAR THERMAL; SPECIFIC COST; STATE OF THE ART; STEAM CYCLES; STORAGE CAPACITY; THERMAL EFFICIENCY; THERMAL STORAGE;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; FUSED SALTS; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; LIQUID METALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RATING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; STEAM ENGINEERING; STEAM POWER PLANTS; TOWERS;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 79953253834     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002137     Document Type: Article

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