Which cooling system is required for a 25 MW solar power plant?

Cooling system required for a 25 MW solar power plant. The 4 m tube length offers the lowest tube side pressure drop of 0.64 kPa due to lower mass flow rate and shorter tube length but it requires a higher tower height of 48 m.

How does a solar plant perform based on a SRC?

Coco-Enríquez et al. (2017) compare the performance of a solar plant, based on a SRC, with four solar sCO 2 cycles configurations, all of them with reheating: the basic regenerative cycle and three recompression layouts (the standard, the partial cooling, and the intercooling).

How do solar thermal power plants work?

In solar thermal power generation, the incident solar radiation is first converted into heat, and the same is then utilized in the power cycle to produce electricity (Timilsina et al., 2012). A schematic of a solar thermal power plant with indirect (two-tank) thermal energy storage is shown in Fig. 1.

Can thermal power plants be cooled?

Since most CSP plants are built in sunny, hot, and dry regions with limited water resources, conventional thermal power plant cooling technologies such as water-intensive once-through wet cooling and less effective dry cooling are not the ideal choices in such harsh environments [1, 2].

Are concentrated solar power plants sustainable?

Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants offer sustainable energy with the benefit of day-to-night energy storage. The recent development of the supercritical car-bon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton cycle made CSP plants cost-competitive.

How can solar thermal power plants improve the performance of power plants?

Multiple requests from the same IP address are counted as one view. Solar thermal power plants are an alternative for the future energy context, allowing for a progressive decarbonisation of electricity production. One way to improve the performance of such plants is the use of supercritical CO2 power cycles.