Beyond Boundaries: Leveraging No-Code Solutions for Industry Innovation
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1. SOLAR THERMAL POWER!
GEEN 4830 – ECEN 5007!
1. Introduction!
Manuel A. Silva Pérez
!
silva@esi.us.es !
2. Contents
} Course objectives and contents
} Solar Energy
} Solar Thermal Concentrating Systems
} Solar Thermal Power
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3. Course objectives
} 1) Understand the fundamentals of the thermal
conversion of solar energy into power.
} 2) Understand the potential and limitations of STP as a
major source of renewable electricity.
} 3) Understand the basics of the different technologies
known as Concentrating Solar Power (CSP), including
technical and economical aspects.
} 4) Have a basic knowledge of the different aspects that
a STP project involves.
} 5) Get familiar with different types of simulation tools
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4. Course plan
} Introduction
} Solar resource
} Brief review of basic Thermodynamics and Heat
Transfer topics
} Fundamentals of High Temperature Solar Thermal
Systems
} Technologies. Description, economics, intro to
design and analysis issues
} Parabolic Troughs
} Central Receivers
} Linear Fresnel Concentrators
} Parabolic dishes
} Integration of STP plants
} Dispatchability. Thermal Storage. Hybridization
} Simulation tools
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5. Solar Energy
} Solar Energy (Britannica Online)
} “radiation from the Sun capable of producing heat, causing
chemical reactions, or generating electricity. (…) the total
amount of solar energy incident on Earth is vastly in excess
of the world’s current and anticipated energy requirements.
If suitably harnessed, this highly diffused source has the
potential to satisfy all future energy needs. In the 21st
century solar energy is expected to become increasingly
attractive as an energy source because of its inexhaustible
supply and its nonpolluting character, in stark contrast to the
finite fossil fuels coal, petroleum, and natural gas.”
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6. Solar Energy
} Solar Energy (Wikipedia)
} “Solar energy is the radiant light and heat from the Sun
that has been harnessed by humans since ancient times using
a range of ever-evolving technologies. Solar radiation along
with secondary solar resources such as wind and
wave power, hydroelectricity and biomass account for most
of the available renewable energy on Earth. Only a minuscule
fraction of the available solar energy is used”. (wikipedia)
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7. Solar Energy
} Solar Power. Electricity generated (directly) from solar
energy.
} Photovoltaic Conversion: PV Systems
} Thermal Conversion: Solar Thermal Power (Concentrating
Solar Thermal Power)
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8. Solar Thermal Concentrating Systems
Systems that make use of solar energy by first
concentrating solar radiation and then converting it
to thermal energy
} Uses:
} Electricity (Solar Thermal Power)
} Industrial Process Heat
} Absorption cooling
} Chemical processes
} …
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10. The energy system challenges
} Global warming, climate change
} Resource depletion
} Need for a deep change of the energy system
} Based mainly on renewable, rather than exhaustible sources
} Decentralized, generation close to consumption
} Efficient (cogeneration)
} Fair
} Transition will not be easy
} STP can play a major role in this context
} Clean
} Abundant
} Distributed
} Dispatchable
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12. Solar
resource
availability.
The
Desertec
project
90 % of the total electricity
demand could be supplied
from STP plants covering
300x300 km2.
Effcient transmission via
HVDC would allow electricity
supply to remote areas with
3000 km moderate losses.
DESERTEC project: STP
plants in the Magreb Area to
supply electricity for Europe
EU25 and Africa
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