Performance and operating experience of the solar total energy project at Shenandoah, Georgia

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5573946

Stine, W B; Ney, E J; Heckes, A A; Connolly, J M

Presented are the results from 29 operational experiments evaluating the performance of the US Department of Energy sponsored Solar Total Energy Project (STEP) at Shenandoah, Georgia. The experiments were conducted during March through December 1984. They were performed under varying isolation conditions using solar-only, fossil-only, and hybrid energy sources, with different electrical and thermal loads and at different electrical load configurations (constant power, sun-following, load-following, and peak-shaving). Three typical experiments are discussed, and energy flow diagrams are presented which show that cogeneration significantly increases the utilization of solar thermal power. An annualized projection, using a computer model of the system, shows that a solar system can efficiently provide electrical power, process steam, and absorption air conditioning to an industrial host.

• Research Organization: California State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona (USA); Georgia Power Co., Shenandoah (USA); Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA); Solar Energy Research Inst., Golden, CO (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5573946
• Report Number(s): SAND-84-1820C; CONF-850604-5; ON: DE85013750
• Resource Relation: Conference: INTERSOL '85 - Solar energy--the diverse solution, Montreal, Canada, 23 Jun 1985
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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