Reducing the number of turbine starts in concentrating solar power plants through the integration of thermal energy storage

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Guédez, Rafael ^a   Spelling, James ^a   Laumert, Björn ^a   Fransson, Torsten ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; GAS TURBINES; HEAT STORAGE; SOLAR HEATING; SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY; STEAM POWER PLANTS; STEAM TURBINES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THERMAL ENERGY; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

% REDUCTIONS; BASE-LOADS; CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER PLANT; CYCLING OPERATIONS; ELECTRICITY COSTS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; SOLAR RESOURCES; SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE; TURBINE UNIT;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 84890162042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2013-94562     Document Type: Conference Paper

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