In the last decade many studies have been carried out on low temperature solar compound parabolic collectors (CPC) that are able to collect solar direct and diffuse radiation without the need of a tracking system, especially if coupled with small scale Organic Rankine Cycles for electricity and heat combined production.
This paper presents a study on a thermal power plant that uses an expansion device driven with pressurized vapor generated with the heat collected by a CPC solar field. The numerical model of the expansion device was developed with the simulation tool AMESim v.12 and allowed the simulation of the indicated cycle of this machine for the evaluation of delivered power, isentropic efficiency and specific working fluid consumption.
At the same time in this paper an analytical model of the evacuated solar CPC is presented for the evaluation of the collected heat as a function of sun incidence angle, external temperature, inlet carrier fluid temperature and mass flow rate.
These two models were used in conjunction for the analysis of the electricity that may be generated as a function of the ambient and working conditions. This study was performed in steady state conditions and with several working fluids to evaluate the power that would be delivered by a given displacement expander rotating at a fixed speed.
The results are given in terms of delivered power, thermal efficiency and amount of collecting surface needed for a given displacement expansion machine, calculated for several working fluids and different operating conditions
This work shows the modeling of an incineration plant with energy recovery which operates in the vicinity of Pisa, Italy. The plant analysed was built formerly as an incineration plant and was recently refurbished with a heat recovery steam generator to drive a condensing steam turbine. In the foresight of an enlargement of the plant capacity, the Technical Office of the Company asked the Energetica Department of University of Pisa for an analysis of the recovery capability. The Technical Office and the Energetica Department decided to create a lumped parameter model in order to simulate the temperature behavior of the combustion products. This model was created inside Matlab/Simulink environment. The followed procedure led to the reproduction of the system interested by the cycle in steady state conditions in order to obtain a model simple enough but at the same time rigorous of the real behavior of steam cicle. After the description of the plant modeling, model calibration and validation is shown, by means of the comparison between the measured and simulated values of temperatures and mass flows in several load conditions. The model developed is currently used by the Technical Office of the Company for further developments of the plant.
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