CSPonD demonstrative project: Start-up process of a 25 kW prototype
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Gil Pujol, Antoni
Grange, Benjamin
Perez, Victor G.
Tetreault-Friend, Melanie
Codd, Daniel S.
Calvet, Nicolas
Slocum Jr., Alexander H
Date Issued
2017
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AIP Conference Proceedings
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Gil, Antoni, Grange, Benjamin, Perez, Victor G., Tetreault-Friend, Melanie, Codd, Daniel S. et al. 2017. "CSPonD demonstrative project: Start-up process of a 25 kW prototype." AIP Conference Proceedings, 1850.
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Abstract
© 2017 Author(s). The current concept of commercial concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, based on the concept of a solar field, receiver, storage and power block, experienced significant growth in the past decades. The power block is the most well know part of the plant, while solar field depends on the receiver technology. The dominant receiver technologies are parabolic troughs and central towers. Most thermal energy storage (TES) relies on two tanks of molten salts, one hot and one cold serviced by pumps and piping systems. In spite of the technical development level achieved by these systems, efficiency is limited, mainly caused by thermal losses in piping, parasitic losses due to electric tracing and pumping and receiver limitations. In order to mitigate the these issues, a new concept called Concentrated Solar Power on Demand (CSPonD), was developed, consisting of a direct absorption Solar Salt CSP receiver which simultaneously acts as TES tank. Currently, in the frame of the flagship collaborative project between the Masdar Institute (UAE) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) a 25 kW demonstrative prototype is in its final building phase at the Masdar Institute Solar Platform. The present paper, explains the demonstration prototype based on the CSPonD concept, with emphasis on the planned start-up process for the facility.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4984477
