Assessment of the overall efficiency of gas turbine-driven CSP plants using small particle solar receivers

Energy Procedia

Volumn 49, Issue , 2014, Pages 334-343

  Fernandez P ^a,b   Miller, F ^a  

^a AGC Paul S Roel Chair in Construction Engineering and Management   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brayton cycle; Concentrated solar power; CSP; Gas turbine; Small Particle Heat Exchange Receiver; Solar receiver; Solar fossil hybrid power generation

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT PROPULSION; BRAYTON CYCLE; COMBUSTORS; EFFICIENCY; ENGINES; GAS PLANTS; GAS TURBINES; GASES; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEATING; SMALL POWER PLANTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; STEAM ENGINEERING;

CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER; GENERATE ELECTRICITY; HEAT EXCHANGE; HYBRID POWER GENERATION; OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES; SINGLE-SHAFT GAS TURBINES; SOLAR RECEIVER; SOLAR TOWER POWER PLANTS;

GAS TURBINE POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84902288647     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.03.036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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