Jlich solar power tower-experimental evaluation of the storage subsystem and performance calculation

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Zunft, Stefan ^a   Hänel, Matthias ^b   Krüger, Michael ^a   Dreißigacker, Volker ^a   Göhring, Felix ^a   Wahl, Eberhard ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b KBA CleanAir   (Germany)

^c KBA CleanAir   (Germany)

Author keywords

heat storage regenerator; solar central receiver power plant; TES; thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

DESIGN ISSUES; DESIGN TOOL; HEAT RATE; MARKET INTRODUCTION; MEASUREMENT DATA; OPERATION SEQUENCES; PERFORMANCE CALCULATION; SIMULATION RESULT; SOLAR CENTRAL RECEIVER POWER PLANT; SOLAR POWER TOWER; SOLID MEDIA; STORAGE SUBSYSTEMS; STORAGE TECHNOLOGY; TES; TEST CAMPAIGN; TEST RESULTS;

HEAT STORAGE; REGENERATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; TOWERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 79961228771     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004358     Document Type: Article

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