Journal
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Volume 86, Issue -, Pages 651-663Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.08.041
Keywords
Solar field size; Performance simulation; Industrial process cogeneration; Concentrated solar energy; TRNSYS
Funding
- PAPIIT-UNAM [IT100514]
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Over the last 25 years solar power plants based on parabolic trough concentrators have been developed for the commercial power industry. On the other hand, in recent years, a way to harness the solar energy is to cogenerate through Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology coupled to an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) with potential applications to industrial processes. In this work we present a study of a small CSP plant coupled to an ORC with a novel configuration since useful energy is directly used to feed the power block and to charge the thermal storage. In order to analyze this novel configuration we consider a case study with cogeneration applied to textile industrial process at medium temperature. It turns out that this configuration reduces the size of the thermal storage disposal. The performance of the solar power plant was simulated with TRNSYS to emulate real operating conditions. We show the design, study and simulation results, including the production and efficiency curves for our load profile. Our results show that our system is a promising option for applications to medium temperature processes where electrical and heat generation is required. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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