Linear Fresnel Collector (LFC) solar thermal technology

Platzer, Werner; Mills, David; Gardner, Wilson

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-819970-1.00006-2

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“…For a complete system, it should be noted that for a large LFR based CSP plant (e.g. 125 MW Dhursar plant in India) the whole solar field does not all operate at the highest temperatures, so the two different receiver options has been developed for such LFR system: one with evacuated tubes for high-temperature operation, and one without evacuation for lower temperatures, could be used in different sections of one solar field for an overall techno-economically optimized result (Platzer et al, 2021). The glass-plate receiver (Fig.…”

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Progress in research and technological advancements of commercial concentrated solar thermal power plants

2023

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Section: Single Tube Receiver Designmentioning

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Progress in research and technological advancements of commercial concentrated solar thermal power plants

2023

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“…Regarding passive storage TES CSP configuration, the Huaqiang TeraSolar 15 MW Fresnel CSP Plant uses concrete as TES and water as HTF [98]. The steam turbine net capacity is 14 MW, reaching an electrical production of 75 GWh/year.…”

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Thermal Energy Storage in Concentrating Solar Power Plants: A Review of European and North American R&D Projects

2022

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Thermal energy storage (TES) is the most suitable solution found to improve the concentrating solar power (CSP) plant’s dispatchability. Molten salts used as sensible heat storage (SHS) are the most widespread TES medium. However, novel and promising TES materials can be implemented into CSP plants within different configurations, minimizing the TES costs and increasing the working temperature to improve the thermal performance of the associated power block. The first objective of this review is to provide an overview of the most widespread CSP technologies, TES technologies and TES-CSP configurations within the currently operational facilities. Once this information has been compiled, the second aim is to collect and present the existing European and North American TES-CSP Research and Development (R&D) projects within the last decade (2011–2021). Data related to these projects such as TES-CSP configuration path, TES and CSP technologies applied, storage capacity, power block associated and the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of the commercial up-scaling project are presented. In addition, project information such as location, research period, project leader and budget granted are also extracted. A timeline of the R&D projects launched from 2011 is built, showing the technology readiness level (TRL) achieved by the end of the project.

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“…The factors c 1 and c 2 are the first-and second-order heat loss coefficients, respectively. The incidence angle modifier (IAM θ ) function describes the optical efficiency for a certain radiation incidence angle θ normalized by optical efficiency evaluated at perpendicular irradiation conditions [22].…”

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Formulation of an Efficiency Model Valid for High Vacuum Flat Plate Collectors

Gaudino,

Caldarelli,

Russo

et al. 2023

Energies

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High Vacuum Flat Plate Collectors (HVFPCs) are the only type of flat plate thermal collectors capable of producing thermal energy for middle-temperature applications (up to 200 °C). As the trend in research plans is to develop new Selective Solar Absorbers to extend the range of HVFPC application up to 250 °C, it is necessary to correctly evaluate the collector efficiency up to such temperatures to predict the energy production accurately. We propose an efficiency model for these collectors based on the selective absorber optical properties. The proposed efficiency model explicitly includes the radiative heat exchange with the ambient, which is the main source of thermal losses for evacuated collectors at high temperatures. It also decouples the radiative losses that depend on the optical properties of the absorber adopted from the other thermal losses due to HVFPC architecture. The model has been validated by applying it to MT-Power HVFPC manufactured by TVP-Solar. The dissipative losses other than thermal radiation were found to be mostly conductive with a linear coefficient k = 0.258 W/m2K. The efficiency model has been also used to predict the energy production of HVFPCs equipped with new, optimized Selective Solar Absorbers developed in recent years. Considering the 2019 meteorological data in Cairo and an operating temperature of 250 °C, the annual energy production of an HVFPC equipped with an optimized absorber is estimated to be 638 kWh/m2.

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Linear Fresnel Collector (LFC) solar thermal technology

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Progress in research and technological advancements of commercial concentrated solar thermal power plants

Progress in research and technological advancements of commercial concentrated solar thermal power plants

Thermal Energy Storage in Concentrating Solar Power Plants: A Review of European and North American R&D Projects

Formulation of an Efficiency Model Valid for High Vacuum Flat Plate Collectors

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