Modular Trough Power Plant Cycle and Systems Analysis
This report summarizes an analysis to reduce the cost of power production from modular concentrating solar power plants through a relatively new and exciting concept that merges two mature technologies to produce distributed modular electric power in the range of 500 to 1,500 kWe. These are the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) power plant and the concentrating solar parabolic (CSP) trough technologies that have been developed independent of each other over many years.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-99-GO10337
- OSTI ID:
- 15000200
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/TP-550-31240; TRN: US200325%%164
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 1 Jan 2002; Related Information: Includes subcontract reports from: Barber-Nichols; Exergy, Inc.; and Reflective Energies
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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