Concentrated solar power plant simulator for education purpose
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- 1 February 2018
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 1829-1834
Abstract
Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants that include thermal energy storage (TES) are an emerging renewable energy source due their dispatch capabilities similar to fossil fuel power plants. As such, it can be of interest to introduce students to its work mechanism and particularities. A simulator for a CSP plant with TES has been built as a teaching tool in order to provide a clear picture of the system. The simulation is based on the model of a 50 MW parabolic trough collector-based CSP plant with molten-salt-based TES. The plant is modeled as a mixed-integer linear-program, with the software implementation in Matlab.Keywords
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