...Rebecca Mitchell; Yu Zhou; Michael Grabel; Guangdong Zhu; Jeremy Sment Concentrating solar power is not a widely deployed or known technology area, and the heliostat workforce community in the United States is currently small, with knowledge and expertise not widely available. The resource...

...Rebecca Mitchell; Kyle Sperber; Michael Grabel; Guangdong Zhu Optics plays a major role in the effectiveness of concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies. The nonintrusive optical (NIO) approach developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory uses uncrewed aircraft system (UAS)-based...

... failure. This paper simulates the dynamic behavior of a high pressure, U-tube/U-shell, salt-to-steam superheater typically found in tower-type concentrating solar power subcritical Rankine cycles. Results focus on responses during load-following and inlet temperature changes. The proposed model...

...://patents.google.com/patent/DE102015217086A1 . [5] Jessen , W. , Röger , M. , Prahl , C. , and Pitz-Paal , R. , 2022 , “ A Two-Stage Method for Measuring the Heliostat Offset ,” Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems (SolarPACES...

...Agustín Ghazarian; Pedro Galione; Pedro Curto This study assesses the feasibility of installing concentrated solar power plants in subtropical South America, particularly in Uruguay, by numerical simulations. Parabolic trough and solar power tower technologies are examined. A comprehensive...

... K. References [1] He , Y.-L. , Qiu , Y. , Wang , K. , Yuan , F. , Wang , W.-Q. , Li , M.-J. , and Guo , J.-Q. , 2020 , “ Perspective of Concentrating Solar Power ,” Energy , 198 , p. 117373 . 10.1016/j.energy.2020.117373 [2] Martinek , J...

...Inderjot Kaur; Youssef Aider; Heejin Cho; Prashant Singh Moving packed-bed heat exchangers in concentrated solar power (CSP) plants involves heat transfer between heated falling particles and supercritical carbon dioxide. The overall effective thermal conductivity of the moving packed bed...

... Solar reflectors for concentrating solar power are exposed to harsh operational conditions for the duration of their operational life [ 1 , 2 ]. With the mirrors alone representing anywhere from 10% to 50% [ 2 ] of the plant installation cost, modeling their durability and optical performance...

...Devon Kesseli; Veena Chidurala; Ryan Gooch; Guangdong Zhu Optical accuracy is a primary driver of parabolic trough concentrating solar power (CSP) plant performance, but can be damaged by wind loads, gravity, error during installation, and regular plant operation. Collecting and analyzing optical...

...James R. Keiser; Xin He; Dino Sulejmanovic; Jun Qu; Kevin R. Robb; Keith Oldinski Molten chloride salts are being given strong consideration for use in heat transfer and storage in concentrating solar power (CSP) systems as well as in some nuclear reactor applications. Containment of the molten...

...William T. Hamilton; Michael J. Wagner; Alexander J. Zolan solarpilot is a software package that generates solar field layouts and characterizes the optical performance of concentrating solar power (CSP) tower systems. solarpilot was developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL...

... of particles, respectively, must be calibrated in advance. Grobbel et al. [ 7 ] calibrated DEM particle properties for the ceramic particles being candidate for concentrating solar power applications by using the bulk calibration approach. However, a receiver scale comparison of the numerical...

...Samia Afrin; Nazmul Hossain; Zhiwen Ma; V. M. Krushnarao Kotteda; Antara Badhan; Vinod Kumar Concentrated solar power (CSP) is a promising technology in transitioning to renewable energy because of its abundance in nature and thermal energy storage (TES) capability. Among the four types...

... and B uilding E nergy C onservation . 06 11 2020 21 05 2021 21 05 2021 15 06 2021 concentrating solar power CSP receiver optimization solar receiver solar tower The majority of large commercial solar tower plants being deployed in the world have two common...

...Zhiwen Ma; Janna Martinek Concentrating solar power (CSP) development has focused on increasing the energy conversion efficiency and lowering the capital cost. To improve performance, CSP research is moving to high-temperature and high-efficiency designs. One technology approach is to use...

... production; this project was the first experience in Algeria with the hybrid technology (gas/solar) used for the production of electricity. As shown in Figs. 8 – 10 , the main objective of this work is to model a Fresnel concentrator solar power plant so that it can simulate it in the El-Oued region...

...Fayrouz El hamdani; Sébastien Vaudreuil; Souad Abderafi; Tijani Bounahmidi Concentrating solar power (CSP) technology is one of the promising options to generate green energy. However, the cost of kWhe produced is relatively high compared with fossil resources and can be reduced by integrating...

...Hermes Chirino; Ben Xu Compared to solar photovoltaics, concentrated solar power (CSP) can store excessive solar thermal energy, extend the power generation, and levelize the mismatch between the demand and supply. Thermal energy storage (TES) system filled with phase change material (PCM) is a key...

...Mohammad Abutayeh; Kwangkook Jeong; Anas Alazzam; Bashar El-Khasawneh A scheme to streamline the electric power generation profile of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants of the parabolic trough collector (PTC) type is suggested. The scheme seeks to even out heat transfer rates from the solar...

...Brian D. Iverson; Stephen J. Bauer; Scott M. Flueckiger thermocline thermal energy storage concentrating solar power solar energy Molten-salt thermocline tanks are a thermal storage technology for use in concentrating solar power plants where sensible energy in the liquid salt...