CSP plant

1. CSP project
design
SAM software
Presented by
Abdulaziz Shalu
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2. What is a CSB plant?
Concentrated solar power
systems generate solar
power by using mirrors or
lenses to concentrate a
large area of sunlight into
a receiver.
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3. SAM CSP capabilities
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• System advisor
modeling software
have different setups
for CSP plant which
you can model from.

4. CSP physical vs CSP empirical
CSP Physical CSP Empirical
The physical trough model characterizes many of the
system components from first principles of heat
transfer and thermodynamics, rather than from
empirical measurements as in the empirical trough
system model.
uses a set of curve-fit equations derived from
regression analysis of data measured from the SEGS
projects in the southwestern United States, so you are
limited to modeling systems composed of components
for which there is measured data
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In short
Physical Empirical
Can be applied any where Only applicable where measured SEGS data is present
Flexible Les flexible
Some level of uncertainty More certain

5. Concentrated solar
plant design
Parabolic through plant
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6. Plant layout
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7. Design requirement
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Requirement Value
1 Turbine gross output 100 Mwe
2 Cycle thermal efficiency 0.35
3 Design point DNI 950 W/m^2
4 HTF inlet temperature 293 Celsius
5 HTF outlet temperature 391 Celsius
6 Thermal energy storage 6 Hours

8. System design configuration
• Model based on your plant specification
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10. Solar field configuration
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Parameters
Heat
transferee
fluid
Mirror
washing
Land area
Single loop
configuration

11. Solar field configuration
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12. Design
outcomes
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13. Design outcomes

14. Summary
In the second lab session we got more in
depth at the SAM software in which we
modeled a CSB parabolic plant inputting our
design requirement into the software
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15. Thanks
Any question?
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