scholarly journals A Cost‐Performance Analysis of a Sodium Heat Engine for Distributed Concentrating Solar Power

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1900104
Author(s):  
Andrey Gunawan ◽  
Abhishek K. Singh ◽  
Richard A. Simmons ◽  
Megan W. Haynes ◽  
Alexander Limia ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Solar Power ◽  
Heat Engine ◽  
Concentrating Solar Power ◽  
Cost Performance

A New Heat Engine and its Applications in Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiding Cao
Keyword(s):  
Heat Source ◽  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Solar Power ◽  
Combustion Engine ◽  
Heat Engine ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Concentrating Solar Power ◽  
Time Duration ◽  
Combustion Gas ◽  
External Combustion

This paper introduces a new heat engine using a gas, such as air or nitrogen, as the working fluid that extracts thermal energy from a heat source as the energy input. The heat engine is to mimic the performance of an air-standard Otto cycle. This is achieved by drastically increasing the time duration of heat acquisition from the heat source in conjunction with the timing of the heat acquisition and a large heat transfer surface area. Performance simulations show that the new heat engine can potentially attain a thermal efficiency above 50% and a power output above 100 kW under open-cycle operation. Additionally, it could drastically reduce engine costs and operate in open cycles, effectively removing the difficulties of dry cooling requirement. The new heat engine may find extensive applications in renewable energy industries, such as concentrating solar power and geothermal energy power. Furthermore, the heat engine may be employed to recover energy from exhaust streams of internal combustion engines, gas turbine engines, and various industrial processes. It may also work as a thermal-to-mechanical conversion system in a nuclear power plant, and function as an external combustion engine in which the heat source is the combustion gas from an external combustion chamber.

Post subsidy conditions: Evaluating the techno-economic performance of concentrating solar power in Spain

Solar Energy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 218 ◽  
pp. 571-586
Author(s):  
Pierre-Antoine Parent ◽  
Pegah Mirzania ◽  
Nazmiye Balta-Ozkan ◽  
Peter King
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Solar Power ◽  
Concentrating Solar Power
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