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Institutionen för Energiteknik: Kraft och Värmeteknologi MJ2411: Renewable Energy Technology – Concentrated Solar Power
MJ2411: Renewable Energy Technology
Solar Pow Power er Technolog echnologies ies Concentrated Solar Power James D. Spelling, KTH-EG KTH-EGII james.spelling@energy nergy.kth.se .kth.se james.spelling@e
Institutionen för Energiteknik: Kraft och Värmeteknologi MJ2411: Renewable Energy Technology – Concentrated Solar Power
Solar Thermal Power A solar thermal system is any process which harnesses solar radiation as a power source through the conversion of the incident at solar flux to u s e f u l h e at Solar thermal power systems can be divided into two types, based on the level of temperature at which the heat is to be delivered Non-Concentrating
Concentrating
Harnesses the Incoming Flux Directly
Concentrates Concentrate s the Incoming Flux
Low Temperature (<120°C)
Higher Temperatures (120 – 3000°C)
06/09/2012
James Spelling
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Institutionen för Energiteknik: Kraft och Värmeteknologi MJ2411: Renewable Energy Technology – Concentrated Solar Power
Concentrating Solar Power Concentrating solar power systems generate a high-temperature Concentrating heat source, which can be used to drive a conventional conventional power plant Thermal energy can be easily stored in large quantities, allowing solar thermal plants to be dispatchable
06/09/2012
James Spelling
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Institutionen för Energiteknik: Kraft och Värmeteknologi MJ2411: Renewable Energy Technology – Concentrated Solar Power
Early Attempts at Solar Power First demonstration of concentrated solar power in 1878 by Augustin Bernard Mouchot at the Universal Exhibition in Paris "Eventually industry will no longer find in Europe the resources to satisfy its prodigious expansion... coal will undoubtedly be used up. What will industry do then?“ - Augustin Mouchot, 1876
Image Source: Wikipedia, 2012 06/09/2012
Output: 140 kg/min of saturated steam James Spelling
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Institutionen för Energiteknik: Kraft och Värmeteknologi MJ2411: Renewable Energy Technology – Concentrated Solar Power
Early Attempts at Solar Power First power producing solar thermal power plant was built in Egypt in 1913, using parabolic trough technology
First patent deposited in 1907 Steam production to drive a 40 kW reciprocating steam engine Payback time of 2 years against coal from England at 13 $/ton
“One thing I feel so sure about, and that is either the human race must finally utilize direct sun power or revert to Image Source: Wikipedia, 2012 06/09/2012
barbarism” -Frank Shuman, 1914 James Spelling
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MJ2411: Renewable Energy Technology
Solar Pow Power er Technolog echnologies ies Concentrated Solar Power James D. Spelling, KTH-EG KTH-EGII james.spelling@energy nergy.kth.se .kth.se james.spelling@e
Institutionen för Energiteknik: Kraft och Värmeteknologi MJ2411: Renewable Energy Technology – Concentrated Solar Power
Solar Thermal Power A solar thermal system is any process which harnesses solar radiation as a power source through the conversion of the incident at solar flux to u s e f u l h e at Solar thermal power systems can be divided into two types, based on the level of temperature at which the heat is to be delivered Non-Concentrating
Concentrating
Harnesses the Incoming Flux Directly
Concentrates Concentrate s the Incoming Flux
Low Temperature (<120°C)
Higher Temperatures (120 – 3000°C)
06/09/2012
James Spelling
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Institutionen för Energiteknik: Kraft och Värmeteknologi MJ2411: Renewable Energy Technology – Concentrated Solar Power
Concentrating Solar Power Concentrating solar power systems generate a high-temperature Concentrating heat source, which can be used to drive a conventional conventional power plant Thermal energy can be easily stored in large quantities, allowing solar thermal plants to be dispatchable
06/09/2012
James Spelling
3
Institutionen för Energiteknik: Kraft och Värmeteknologi MJ2411: Renewable Energy Technology – Concentrated Solar Power
Early Attempts at Solar Power First demonstration of concentrated solar power in 1878 by Augustin Bernard Mouchot at the Universal Exhibition in Paris "Eventually industry will no longer find in Europe the resources to satisfy its prodigious expansion... coal will undoubtedly be used up. What will industry do then?“ - Augustin Mouchot, 1876
Image Source: Wikipedia, 2012 06/09/2012
Output: 140 kg/min of saturated steam James Spelling
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Institutionen för Energiteknik: Kraft och Värmeteknologi MJ2411: Renewable Energy Technology – Concentrated Solar Power
Early Attempts at Solar Power First power producing solar thermal power plant was built in Egypt in 1913, using parabolic trough technology
First patent deposited in 1907 Steam production to drive a 40 kW reciprocating steam engine Payback time of 2 years against coal from England at 13 $/ton
“One thing I feel so sure about, and that is either the human race must finally utilize direct sun power or revert to Image Source: Wikipedia, 2012 06/09/2012
barbarism” -Frank Shuman, 1914 James Spelling
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