Parabolic Trough Organic Rankine Cycle Power Plant

Conference · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2005

OSTI ID:860827

Canada, S; Cohen, G; Cable, R; Brosseau, D; Price, H

Arizona Public Service (APS) is required to generate a portion of its electricity from solar resources in order to satisfy its obligation under the Arizona Environmental Portfolio Standard (EPS). In recent years, APS has installed and operates over 4.5 MWe of fixed, tracking, and concentrating photovoltaic systems to help meet the solar portion of this obligation and to develop an understanding of which solar technologies provide the best cost and performance to meet utility needs. During FY04, APS began construction of a 1-MWe parabolic trough concentrating solar power plant. This plant represents the first parabolic trough plant to begin construction since 1991. The plant will also be the first commercial deployment of the Solargenix parabolic trough collector technology developed under contract to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The plant will use an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) power plant, provided by Ormat. The ORC power plant is much simpler than a conventional steam Rankine cycle power plant and allows unattended operation of the facility.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-99GO10337
• OSTI ID: 860827
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-550-37077
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER
CONSTRUCTION
ELECTRICITY
NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY
PARABOLIC TROUGH
PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTORS
PERFORMANCE
POWER PLANTS
PV
RANKINE CYCLE
SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS
SOLAR POWER PLANTS
STEAM
Solar Energy - Thermal