Thermal-economic analysis of concentrated solar power plants and numerical simulation of components

Abstract

The concentrated solar power plants (CSP) have been becoming more attractive in the latest years due to world demands on green energy. An economic and performance analysis over two of these technologies (parabolic trough and tower receiver) is being held in this report with the help of the System Advisor Model (SAM) programme. The CSP plants in operation, Andasol-1 and Gemasolar, allow to apply this investigation over both of them. Furthermore, a heat transfer analysis over the heat storage system (storage tanks) of the Andasol-1 plant is studied with the use of an own numerical methodology (code).