Abstract:The present work aims to investigate the load-following capability of a tower-based CSP plant assumed to cover a high fraction (90%) of the power demand of a mid-size remote community. The design of a CRS requires the determination of several variables (number of heliostats, layout arrangement, tower height, receiver dimensions) depending on the solar field size and the site location. In this paper, a two-step optimization procedure is presented. A preliminary optimization is carried out to define the solar fi… Show more
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