Analysis of two heat storage integrations for an Organic Rankine Cycle Parabolic trough solar power plant
- Chacartegui, R.
- Vigna, Leo
- Becerra, J. A.
- Verda, V.
DOIAbstract
Among the concentrated solar power technologies, those based on Organic Rankine Cycles have a very low market presence. However they have favorable characteristics for applications with low temperature and small/medium size (<10 MW), such as off-grid applications or distributed power generation. In this paper is analyzed a 5MW parabolic trough plant integrated with an Organic Rankine cycle power block and thermal storage. On this purpose, two different thermal storage integrations are analyzed. They are based on two different heat storage layouts: direct system using Hitec XL both as Heat Transfer Fluid and as storage medium; indirect system using Therminol VP-1 as Heat Transfer Fluid and Hitec XL as storage medium. Full system perf...
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