The availability of storage capacity plays an important role for the economic success of solar thermal power plants. For today’s parabolic trough power plants, sensible heat storage systems with operation temperatures between 300°C and 390°C can be used. A solid media sensible heat storage system is developed and will be tested in a parabolic trough test loop at PSA, Spain. A simulation tool for the analysis of the transient performance of solid media sensible heat storage systems has been implemented. The computed results show the influence of various parameters describing the storage system. While the effects of the storage material properties are limited, the selected geometry of the storage system is important. The evaluation of a storage system demands the analysis of the complete power plant and not only of the storage unit. Then the capacity of the system is defined by the electric work produced by the power plant during a discharge process of the storage unit. The choice of the operation strategy for the storage system proves to be essential for the economic optimization.
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Advanced Thermal Energy Storage Technology for Parabolic Trough
Rainer Tamme,
e-mail: rainer.tamme@dlr.de
Rainer Tamme
DLR–German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Doerte Laing,
Doerte Laing
DLR–German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Wolf-Dieter Steinmann
Wolf-Dieter Steinmann
DLR–German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Rainer Tamme
DLR–German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
e-mail: rainer.tamme@dlr.de
Doerte Laing
DLR–German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Wolf-Dieter Steinmann
DLR–German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Contributed by the Solar Energy Division of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication in the ASME JOURNAL OF SOLAR ENERGY ENGINEERING. Manuscript received by the ASME Solar Energy Division, July 2003; final revision, December 2003. Associate Editor: M. Olszewski.
J. Sol. Energy Eng. May 2004, 126(2): 794-800 (7 pages)
Published Online: May 4, 2004
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Received:
July 1, 2003
Revised:
December 1, 2003
Online:
May 4, 2004
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Tamme, R., Laing , D., and Steinmann, W. (May 4, 2004). "Advanced Thermal Energy Storage Technology for Parabolic Trough ." ASME. J. Sol. Energy Eng. May 2004; 126(2): 794–800. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1687404
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