Optimal coupling of a biomass based polygeneration system with a concentrated solar power facility for the constant production of electricity over a year

Vidal, Marta; Martı́n, Mariano

doi:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2013.11.006

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“…Syngas can be used for many applications, such as the production of heat or electricity (this often involves its direct use in gas internal combustion engines, Brayton and Brayton-Rankine combined cycles), synthetic fuels, ethanol and methanol (through combined processes), and for isolating hydrogen. For instance, Vidal and Martín (2015) evaluated different biomass gasification processes (direct and indirect) and two gas reforming technologies (steam reforming and partial oxidation) integrated into a molten salt central receiver system, with three alternatives for using syngas: integrating a water-gas shift reactor to produce hydrogen, burning the syngas to produce heat, which is used to heat the molten salts, and integrating an open Brayton cycle in which the combustion of the syngas heats an air-gas mixture that is expanded in a gas turbine, and the exhaust gas is used to heat the molten salts. Their results indicated that using indirect gasification, steam reforming, and an open Brayton cycle represents the optimal integration in terms of energy production (electrical or thermal) and cost of energy.…”

Section: Csp + Biomass Polygeneration Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integration schemes for hybrid and polygeneration concentrated solar power plants

Cardemil

Starke

Zurita

et al. 2021

WIREs Energy & Environment

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Concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies have been developed over the past four decades for commercial operation, establishing them as reliable power generation sources in regions with high direct solar irradiance. The sizing of the solar field, thermal energy storage systems, and power block enables CSP plants to operate under various operating conditions, while also exhibiting capabilities to generate multiple products such as electricity, heat, desalination, and cooling.The limitations of CSP systems can be reduced by utilizing the positive traits of other technologies, thus resulting in hybrid plant configurations that can fully exploit different technology strengths while minimizing their individual weaknesses. This review presents the state of the art on CSP stand-alone plants for both power generation and combined generation of different products. Subsequently, the characteristics of CSP plants hybridized with photovoltaics, wind, fossil fuels, and biomass systems are discussed for both power multiple-product generation. The review of assessment methodologies provides suggestions for both assessment and performance analysis and comparison with other generation technologies. This review shows that hybrid CSP plants have clear advantages in terms of cost, flexibility of operation, adaptability, and capability for the multigeneration of different products compared with stand-alone plants used to generate each product individually. Hybrid CSP plants have advantages and can be designed to satisfy multiple demands on a case-by-case basis and are valid alternatives to combinations of stand-alone plants.

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Section: Csp + Biomass Polygeneration Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integration schemes for hybrid and polygeneration concentrated solar power plants

Cardemil

Starke

Zurita

et al. 2021

WIREs Energy & Environment

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“…The use of multi-generation in this configuration results in a very high overall energy efficiency of 77.4%, while the electrical efficiency is 17.8% [136]. As multigeneration hybrid-source systems may have multiple combinations of technologies, optimization around the plant design can be a valuable endeavor to determine which components should be included and how that impacts the overall costs [137,138].…”

Section: Solar-aided Biomass Gasification With Multi-generationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hybrid concentrated solar thermal power systems: A review

Powell

Rashid

Ellingwood

et al. 2017

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

192

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Concentrated solar power (CSP), or solar thermal power, is an ideal technology to hybridize with other energy technologies for power generation. CSP shares technology with conventional power generation and can be readily integrated with other energy types into a synergistic system, which has many potential benefits including increased dispatchability and reliability, improved efficiency, reduced capital costs through equipment sharing, and the opportunity for flexible operation by alternating between energy sources, which can lead to improved overall efficiency through synergy of the different energy sources. Another advantage of CSP technology is the ability to readily store via thermal energy storage (TES), making the intermittent solar resource dispatchable. A review of CSP hybridization strategies with coal, natural gas, biofuels, geothermal, photovoltaic (PV), and wind is given. An overview of different configurations for hybridizing CSP with these other energy sources is also provided. Hybridized CSP plants present different types and levels of synergy, depending on the hybrid energy source, the location of the plant, the CSP technology used, and the plant configuration. Coal, natural gas, and biofuel hybrids with CSP present many opportunities to inject solar heat at various temperatures. These combustible fuels provide reliability, dispatchability, and flexibility but are not entirely renewable solutions (with the exception of biofuels). Geothermal, wind, and PV hybrid designs with CSP can be entirely renewable, but lack some of the benefits of hydrocarbon fuels. Effective geothermal-CSP hybrid designs require low temperature operation where efficiency is limited by the power cycle. Wind-CSP and PVT (photovoltaic/thermal) lack dispatchability, but have other advantages. The pursuit of ideal CSP hybrid systems is an important research topic as it allows for further development of CSP technologies while providing an immediate solution that increases the use of solar power.

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“…A number of studies adopted a mixed-integer non-linear programming approach for modelling the tri-generation or poly-generation systems. These studies were performed by the authors in [78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90]. Chen et al [78] investigated the optimal design and operation of flexible poly-generation systems.…”

Section: Non-linear Programming (Nlp) and Mixed-integer Non-linear Prmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Vidal and Martin addressed the integration of a biomass poly‐generation system with a solar power facility, and they formulated a multi‐period MINLP problem. They first modelled the concentrated solar plant with 3000 equations and 3300 variables, and then, they decomposed the MINLP problem corresponding the biomass‐based plant into four NLP problems consisting of 23 500 equations and 28 700 variables, using GAMS/CONOPT.…”

Section: Optimisation Studiesmentioning

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Optimisation studies on tri-generation: a review

Ünal¹,

Ercan

Kayakutlu

2015

Int. J. Energy Res.

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Summary Electricity, heating and cooling usage at the same time constitute an important part of primary energy consumption. Currently, intense efforts are being devoted to the improvement and development of new technologies to promote energy savings and to mitigate the global warming. Among these technologies, tri‐generation and poly‐generation systems come into prominence due to their high efficiencies, as well as low operating costs and low greenhouse gas emissions. Nevertheless, modelling and sizing these systems is a large‐sized problem itself, and the higher the number of inputs, the higher the computational complexity. This paper aims to give a comprehensive review of the optimisation techniques used in tri‐generation and poly‐generation systems modelling and optimisation. After having reviewed more than a hundred papers, taxonomy is constructed. Self‐organising map is used to cluster the reviewed studies based on the optimisation techniques. Variations of the energy resources and the outputs of implemented systems are summarised. The crowd of clusters demonstrated the widely used optimisation techniques and the gaps in research. This study will certainly pioneer the optimisation studies in the field of tri‐generation/poly‐generation applications. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Optimal coupling of a biomass based polygeneration system with a concentrated solar power facility for the constant production of electricity over a year

Cited by 57 publications

References 23 publications

Integration schemes for hybrid and polygeneration concentrated solar power plants

Integration schemes for hybrid and polygeneration concentrated solar power plants

Hybrid concentrated solar thermal power systems: A review

Optimisation studies on tri-generation: a review

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