Power generation plant integrating concentrated solar power receiver and pressurized heat exchanger
Abstract
A power plant includes a solar receiver heating solid particles, a standpipe receiving solid particles from the solar receiver, a pressurized heat exchanger heating working fluid by heat transfer through direct contact with heated solid particles flowing out of the bottom of the standpipe, and a flow path for solid particles from the bottom of the standpipe into the pressurized heat exchanger that is sealed by a pressure P produced at the bottom of the standpipe by a column of heated solid particles of height H. The flow path may include a silo or surge tank comprising a pressure vessel connected to the bottom of the standpipe, and a non-mechanical valve. The power plant may further include a turbine driven by heated working fluid discharged from the pressurized heat exchanger, and a compressor driven by the turbine.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1327922
- Patent Number(s):
- 9,458,838
- Application Number:
- 14/333,940
- Assignee:
- The Babcock & Wilcox Company (Barberton, OH)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 2014 Jul 17
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 42 ENGINEERING
Citation Formats
Sakadjian, Bartev B, Flynn, Thomas J, Hu, Shengteng, Velazquez-Vargas, Luis G, and Maryamchik, Mikhail. Power generation plant integrating concentrated solar power receiver and pressurized heat exchanger. United States: N. p., 2016.
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Sakadjian, Bartev B, Flynn, Thomas J, Hu, Shengteng, Velazquez-Vargas, Luis G, & Maryamchik, Mikhail. Power generation plant integrating concentrated solar power receiver and pressurized heat exchanger. United States.
Sakadjian, Bartev B, Flynn, Thomas J, Hu, Shengteng, Velazquez-Vargas, Luis G, and Maryamchik, Mikhail. Tue .
"Power generation plant integrating concentrated solar power receiver and pressurized heat exchanger". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1327922.
@article{osti_1327922,
title = {Power generation plant integrating concentrated solar power receiver and pressurized heat exchanger},
author = {Sakadjian, Bartev B and Flynn, Thomas J and Hu, Shengteng and Velazquez-Vargas, Luis G and Maryamchik, Mikhail},
abstractNote = {A power plant includes a solar receiver heating solid particles, a standpipe receiving solid particles from the solar receiver, a pressurized heat exchanger heating working fluid by heat transfer through direct contact with heated solid particles flowing out of the bottom of the standpipe, and a flow path for solid particles from the bottom of the standpipe into the pressurized heat exchanger that is sealed by a pressure P produced at the bottom of the standpipe by a column of heated solid particles of height H. The flow path may include a silo or surge tank comprising a pressure vessel connected to the bottom of the standpipe, and a non-mechanical valve. The power plant may further include a turbine driven by heated working fluid discharged from the pressurized heat exchanger, and a compressor driven by the turbine.},
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