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Industrial-scale prototype of cTES for water consumption reduction and power block efficiency improvement - SOLWATT PROJECT

  • Arnaud Bruch
  • , Kumar Patchigolla
  • , Faisal Asfand
  • , Luis Millán Monte
  • , Rogelio Peón Menéndez
  • , Sylvie Douard
  • , Delphine Bourdon

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Abstract

SOLWATT project started in May 2018 and involve 9 partners (4 research organizations CEA, CIEMAT, CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY and DLR- and 5 industrial partners TSK, BRIGHTSOURCE, FENIKS, RIOGLASS and TECKNIKER). SOLWATT project is devoted to the reduction of water consumption in CSP power plant. For this purpose, mirror field cleaning, turbine condenser cooling and water recovery are considered. Present paper is devoted more particularly to the cTES industrial prototype (cold thermal energy storage) used to reduce the water consumption related to condenser cooling. The cTES is based on a single-media thermocline storage used to partially or totally store the heat flow from the condenser when ambient temperatures are too high. Storage discharge is performed during the night. A 1000 m3 cTES prototype will be designed and constructed in the 50 MWe La Africana CSP power plant.

Original languageEnglish
Article number200009
JournalAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume2126
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Jul 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event24th SolarPACES International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2018 - Casablanca, Morocco
Duration: 2 Oct 20185 Oct 2018

Bibliographical note

After publication please use: “This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Arnaud Bruch, Kumar Patchigolla, Faisal Asfand, Luis Millán Monte, Rogelio Peón Menéndez, Sylvie Douard, Delphine Bourdon; Industrial-scale prototype of cTES for water consumption reduction and power block efficiency improvement - SOLWATT PROJECT. AIP Conf. Proc. 25 July 2019; 2126 (1): 200009. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5117724 and may be found at https://pubs.aip.org/aip/acp/article/2126/1/200009/701731/Industrial-scale-prototype-of-cTES-for-water.

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