Abstract
The Design, Analysis, and Operations Toolkit (DAO-Tk) is a software package that allows users to explore design optimization, operations decision, and performance characterization of concentrating solar power tower plants. Users interface with the tool through a scripting language, and results are reported in time series tables, plots, runtime logs, and design outputs. Users choose from a list of variables such as tower height, solar multiple, design-point irradiance, thermal storage size, etc., and specify information about the system using a list of parameters. The software can then optimize the specified variables to reduce the cost of energy produced by the system while meeting certain production requirements, accounting for uncertain weather and electricity price forecasts, and correcting for equipment failures or repair time. The DAO-Tk software is the first comprehensive design tool of it's kind to incorporate all of these aspects while being deployed as open source.
- Developers:
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Martinek, Janna [1] ; Wagner, Michael [1] ; Zolan, Alexander [1] ; Boyd, Matthew [1] ; Newman, Alexandra [2] ; Morton, David [3] ; Leyffer, Sven [4] ; Larson, Jeffrey [4]
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
- Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Release Date:
- 2019-04-26
- Project Type:
- Open Source, Publicly Available Repository
- Software Type:
- Scientific
- Licenses:
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BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
- Sponsoring Org.:
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USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Solar Energy Technologies Office (EE-4S)Primary Award/Contract Number:AC36-08GO28308
- Code ID:
- 25202
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Country of Origin:
- United States
Citation Formats
Martinek, Janna, Wagner, Michael, Zolan, Alexander, Boyd, Matthew, Newman, Alexandra, Morton, David, Leyffer, Sven, and Larson, Jeffrey.
Design, Analysis, and Operations Toolkit (DAO-Tk).
Computer Software.
https://github.com/NREL/dao-tk.
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Solar Energy Technologies Office (EE-4S).
26 Apr. 2019.
Web.
doi:10.11578/dc.20190513.3.
Martinek, Janna, Wagner, Michael, Zolan, Alexander, Boyd, Matthew, Newman, Alexandra, Morton, David, Leyffer, Sven, & Larson, Jeffrey.
(2019, April 26).
Design, Analysis, and Operations Toolkit (DAO-Tk).
[Computer software].
https://github.com/NREL/dao-tk.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20190513.3.
Martinek, Janna, Wagner, Michael, Zolan, Alexander, Boyd, Matthew, Newman, Alexandra, Morton, David, Leyffer, Sven, and Larson, Jeffrey.
"Design, Analysis, and Operations Toolkit (DAO-Tk)." Computer software.
April 26, 2019.
https://github.com/NREL/dao-tk.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20190513.3.
@misc{
doecode_25202,
title = {Design, Analysis, and Operations Toolkit (DAO-Tk)},
author = {Martinek, Janna and Wagner, Michael and Zolan, Alexander and Boyd, Matthew and Newman, Alexandra and Morton, David and Leyffer, Sven and Larson, Jeffrey},
abstractNote = {The Design, Analysis, and Operations Toolkit (DAO-Tk) is a software package that allows users to explore design optimization, operations decision, and performance characterization of concentrating solar power tower plants. Users interface with the tool through a scripting language, and results are reported in time series tables, plots, runtime logs, and design outputs. Users choose from a list of variables such as tower height, solar multiple, design-point irradiance, thermal storage size, etc., and specify information about the system using a list of parameters. The software can then optimize the specified variables to reduce the cost of energy produced by the system while meeting certain production requirements, accounting for uncertain weather and electricity price forecasts, and correcting for equipment failures or repair time. The DAO-Tk software is the first comprehensive design tool of it's kind to incorporate all of these aspects while being deployed as open source. },
doi = {10.11578/dc.20190513.3},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20190513.3},
howpublished = {[Computer Software] \url{https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20190513.3}},
year = {2019},
month = {apr}
}