Design Approaches for Solar Industrial Process Heat Systems

Industrial Process Heat Applications of Solar Energy

Concentrating solar collectors of low concentration ratio can supply hot water or process heat at intermediate temperatures, i.e. 80 to 180 C, where flat plate collectors are not effective, and for which there are a number of industrial, domestic and rural applications. This paper studies the potential applications of this technology and presents case studies to prove its feasibility.

Solar Heat for Industrial Processes

Economic Status and Prospects of Solar Thermal Industrial Heat

SUMMARY This paper provides estimates of the ievelized energy cost (LEC) of a mid-temperature parabolic trough system for three different development scenarios. A current technology case is developed that is representative of recent designs and costs for commercial systems, and is developed using data from a recent system installed in Tehachapi, California. The second scenario looks at design e...

Integrated Process and Plant Design Optimisation of Industrial Scale Batch Systems: Addressing the Inherent Dynamics through Stochastic and Hybrid Approaches

This work explores stochastic and hybrid solution approaches for dealing with the problem of integrated batch process development and plant design. The simultaneous optimization of batch process synthesis, task allocation and plant design has been formulated in the literature as a mixed-logic dynamic optimization (MLDO) problem, including dynamic control profiles, continuous variables, integers...

Stabilizer Design for Industrial Co-generation Systems

Existing large industrial control systems often exhibit poor tracking and disturbance rejection capabilities due to a large number of decentralized control loops. To improve these, a stabilizer design procedure is proposed based on H∞ optimization. The procedure is simple to apply and requires only some of the closed-loop transfer functions. Application of the approach in the Syncrude utility p...