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Feasibility Analysis of Nanostructured Planar Focusing Collectors for Concentrating Solar Power Applications
摘要： Concentrating solar power (CSP) technology is an attractive approach to harvesting solar energy. Unlike photovoltaic (PV) technology, thermal storage is used in lieu of batteries for electricity generation. However, the cost of current collection optics in a CSP plant hampers commercial competitiveness with PVs and natural gas. The use of a planar focusing collector (PFC) could help reduce cost of materials, installation, and maintenance. We present two candidate PFC designs, one based on metasurfaces and the other a Fresnel-like model. We feed each design through the entire system process—design, fabrication, scalability, and techno-economic feasibility—and discuss the challenges met at each stage. Two-photon and nanoimprint lithography are used to make PFC molds and replicas, respectively. We find that the annual optical efficiency for the Fresnel-based PFC is ~40%--higher than the current 30% target for natural gas, thereby suggesting potential economic advantages in the market of industrial process heat.
关键词： Metasurface,Two-Photon Lithography,Concentrating Solar Power (CSP),Planar Focusing Collector (PFC),Nanoimprint Lithography
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Concentrating photovoltaic retrofit for existing parabolic trough solar collectors: Design, experiments, and levelized cost of electricity
摘要： Photovoltaics and concentrating solar thermal power are two ways for generating electricity from sunlight, albeit through different methods. Parabolic trough style powerplants represent 3.6 GW of electricity production, but many of these plants are aging and being replaced with photovoltaics. An alternative option that could be employed to leverage the sunk capital cost associated with the primary optics would be the design of a pure photovoltaic retrofit working within the existing plant architecture. Here, a secondary optical concentrator is designed to use the existing primary optics of a parabolic trough type solar thermal powerplant. The design is a v-shaped secondary concentrator resulting in a predicted concentration ratio on a 20 mm wide target of 94. The concentrating photovoltaic receiver for retrofit of an RP-3 based parabolic trough has been constructed using multi-junction concentrator photovoltaic cells and experimentally demonstrated here for the first time. Calculated performance of the cells based on cell specifications should result in 31% efficiency at 85 °C. On-sun efficiencies were measured at an average value of 21% with operational temperatures between 55 and 120 °C. Levelized cost of electricity calculations predict the system to have the potential to be below 7￠/kWh based on predicted efficiencies and 13￠/kWh based on the measured values at cell costs of $5/cm2.
关键词： Concentrating solar power (CSP),Solar energy,Retrofit,Photovoltaic (PV)
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Risk assessment in a central concentrating solar power plant
摘要： In this paper, optimal scheduling of a central concentrating solar power (CSP) plant which is one of the most promising technologies in the solar energy is investigated in the presence of different uncertainties. Thermal energy storage is integrated with the CSP plant in order to allow the plant to be independent from the instantaneous solar radiation. In order to model different uncertainty such as power market price and solar irradiation, a new hybrid information gap decision theory (IGDT)-stochastic method is introduced which is a mixed-integer linear programming method and presents more reliable results in a suitable computation time. In the proposed method the uncertainty of the solar irradiation is modeled by IGDT method while power market price uncertainty is considered by a set of fifty scenarios. Three different strategies as risk-averse, risk-neutral and risk-taker are introduced to analyze the operation of the CSP plant. In the risk-neutral strategy, obtained profit is equal to $3895 which is reduced in the risk-averse strategy by increasing robustness value indicating increased uncertainty of the solar irradiation. In the risk-taker strategy, the CSP operating profit will be equal to $4245 by 15% of increase in solar radiation, comparing with the risk-neutral case shows almost 8.2% increase in profit.
关键词： Information gap decision theory (IGDT),Solar thermal energy storage,Stochastic optimization,Concentrating solar power (CSP) plant
更新于2025-09-19 17:15:36
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Dispatch optimization of concentrating solar power with utility-scale photovoltaics
摘要： Concentrating solar power (CSP) tower technologies capture thermal radiation from the sun utilizing a field of solar-tracking heliostats. When paired with inexpensive thermal energy storage (TES), CSP technologies can dispatch electricity during peak-market-priced hours, day or night. The cost of utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems has dropped significantly in the last decade, resulting in inexpensive energy production during daylight hours. The hybridization of PV and CSP with TES systems has the potential to provide continuous and stable energy production at a lower cost than a PV or CSP system alone. Hybrid systems are gaining popularity in international markets as a means to increase renewable energy portfolios across the world. Historically, CSP-PV hybrid systems have been evaluated using either monthly averages of hourly PV production or scheduling algorithms that neglect the time-of-production value of electricity in the market. To more accurately evaluate a CSP-PV-battery hybrid design, we develop a profit-maximizing mixed-integer linear program (H) that determines a dispatch schedule for the individual sub-systems with a sub-hourly time fidelity. We present the mathematical formulation of such a model and show that it is computationally expensive to solve. To improve model tractability and reduce solution times, we offer techniques that: (1) reduce the problem size, (2) tighten the linear programming relaxation of (H) via reformulation and the introduction of cuts, and (3) implement an optimization-based heuristic (that can yield initial feasible solutions for (H) and, at any rate, yields near-optimal solutions). Applying these solution techniques results in a 79% improvement in solve time, on average, for our 48-h instances of (H); corresponding solution times for an annual model run decrease by as much as 93%, where such a run consists of solving 365 instances of (H), retaining only the first 24 h’ worth of the solution, and sliding the time window forward 24 h. We present annual system metrics for two locations and two markets that inform design practices for hybrid systems and lay the groundwork for a more exhaustive policy analysis. A comparison of alternative hybrid systems to the CSP-only system demonstrates that hybrid models can almost double capacity factors while resulting in a 30% improvement related to various economic metrics.
关键词： Grid integration,CSP-PV hybrid systems,Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP),System analysis,Photovoltaics (PV),Concentrating solar power (CSP),Dispatch optimization,Lithium-ion battery
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04
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Mitigation Strategy for Duck Curve in High Photovoltaic Penetration Power System Using Concentrating Solar Power Station
摘要： Concentrating solar power (CSP) station is counted as a promising ?exible power supply when the net load power curve is duck-shaped in high photovoltaic (PV) penetration power system, which may lead to the serious phenomenon of PV curtailment and a large-capacity power shortage. This paper presents a mitigation strategy that replaces thermal power station with CSP station to participate in the optimal operation of power system for solving the duck-shaped net load power curve problem. The proposed strategy utilizes the dispatchability of thermal storage system (TSS) and the fast output regulation of unit in the CSP station. Simultaneously, considering the operation constraints of CSP station and network security constraints of the system, an optimization model is developed to minimize the overall cost including operation and penalty. The results obtained by nonlinear optimization function demonstrate that the replacement of concentrating solar power (CSP) station contributes to reducing the PV curtailment and lost load, while increasing the available equivalent slope for power balance. Thus, the proposed mitigation strategy can promote the penetration of PV generation and improve the ?exibility of power system.
关键词： regulation capability,concentrating solar power (CSP) station,duck curve,operation mode,photovoltaic (PV) penetration
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04
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and above: Experiments and modeling in the optically-thick regime
摘要： This work presents the exploratory experimental results of a co-located solar receiver and thermal energy storage (TES) concept based on a pool of molten glass contained in a cavity, serving as solar receiver and TES medium simultaneously. Distinctive features of the system are the direct and volumetric absorption of solar radiation by the semi-transparent glass and a stationary TES medium. Only the charge cycle was studied, without a heat-removal system. Recycled soda-lime-silica (SLS) container glass of various colors was adopted as working medium in a setup tested at the ETH’s High Flux Solar Simulator (HFSS). A steady 3D heat transfer model of the experimental apparatus, which couples Monte-Carlo ray-tracing and CFD techniques, was developed and validated against the experimental results. The tests used the HFSS as the only energy source, with maximum radiative fluxes of 1.2 MWm?2 and power input of 1.5 kW directly absorbed by the glass, which reached measured temperatures of 1300 °C, while the maximum temperatures –as predicted by the model– exceeded 1500 °C. Such conditions were maintained for 5 to 10 h and no technical problems were encountered with the containment of the hot glass melt. These preliminary results demonstrate that silicate glasses are effective volumetric absorbers of solar radiation up to temperatures exceeding 1300 °C.
关键词： Concentrating Solar Power (CSP),Glass,Thermal Energy Storage (TES),GLASUNTES
更新于2025-09-09 09:28:46
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AIP Conference Proceedings [Author(s) SolarPACES 2017: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems - Santiago, Chile (26–29 September 2017)] - Techno-economic analysis of a central receiver power plant with different levels of storage capacity and hybridization
摘要： The energy storage and fossil-backup (fossil-hybridization) systems of a concentrating solar power plant (CSP) provide a continuous production of energy all over the year and satisfy the grid demand even when the sun is not shining. One could ask about the behavior of the energy production, or the levelized energy cost, as a function of the energy storage and of the fossil-hybridization in such plants. This paper tries to answer this question. For this task, there have been performed numerous simulations on a central receiver plant with a fixed nominal power, varying the storage capacity and the level of hybridization. The results showed that these variables impact differently. For the thermal storage, from capacities ranging from 0h to 24h, there is a specific intermediary capacity, 15h, in which the levelized energy cost is minimum. But for the fossil-hybridization, this energy cost always decreases with the increment of the hybrid level. The results also showed that, if a given energy production is supported by a certain level of hybridization, its energy cost would be less than that supported by a storage system. This is due to the relatively high investment costs related to the storage system, and the relatively low cost of fuel.
关键词： Concentrating Solar Power (CSP),Central Receiver (CR),Thermal Energy Storage (TES),Fossil-hybridization (HYB),Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE)
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14