Electrical production of a small size Concentrated Solar Power plant with compound parabolic collectors

Renewable Energy

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 1110-1118

  Antonelli, M ^a   Baccioli, A ^a   Francesconi, Marco ^b   Desideri, U ^a   Martorano, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMESim; Compound parabolic collectors; Distributed generation; Lumped parameters model; Organic Rankine Cycle; Solar energy

Indexed keywords

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY; COST REDUCTION; COSTS; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; EXPANSION; MIRRORS; PLANT EXPANSION; RANKINE CYCLE; SMALL POWER PLANTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

AMESIM; ANNUAL ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; COMPOUND PARABOLIC COLLECTOR; COMPOUND PARABOLIC COLLECTORS (CPCS); LUMPED-PARAMETERS MODELS; ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLE(ORC); ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLES; THERMODYNAMIC CYCLE PARAMETERS;

INVESTMENTS;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POWER PLANT; SOLAR POWER; THERMODYNAMICS;

SPAIN;

EID: 84930938851     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.03.033     Document Type: Article

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