Conventionally Grid Connected Solar PV plants initially generates DC power and then converted to AC via inverters and connected into AC grid for power transmission. Depending on the size of the plant, required environmental condition and land availability large PV plants are generally located far away from the load centre. Hence reduction of transmission loss and incised transmission capacity e...

The work presented in this paper exploits the transport characteristic of a solar plant where the transport velocity (a flow) is the manipulated variable, i.e. the control input. The solar field is modelled by a partial differential equation. A non-uniform sampling in time is performed in order to obtain a discrete linear model. Due to the transport dynamics of the plant the resulting transfer ...

Three alternatives for integrating a solar field with the bottoming cycle of a combined cycle plant are modeled: parabolic troughs with oil at intermediate and low cycle pressures and Fresnel linear collectors at low cycle pressure. It is assumed that the plant will always operate at nominal conditions, using post-combustion during the hours of no solar resource. A thermoeconomic study of the o...

The paper examines design and operating data of current concentrated solar power (CSP) 11 solar tower (ST) plants. The study includes CSP with or without boost by combustion of natural gas 12 (NG), and with or without thermal energy storage (TES). The latest, actual specific costs per 13 installed capacity are very high, 6085 $/kW for Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) 14 with no ...

integrated energy systems utilizing renewable sources are sustainable and environmentally substitutes for conventional fossil-fired energy systems. a new multigeneration plant with two inputs, such as biomass and solar energy, and four useful outputs, such as cooling, heating, power, and distilled water, is presented and investigated in this paper. the proposed system includes evacuated tube so...

Incident solar radiation at the Earth's surface is the result of a complex interaction of energy between the atmosphere and the surface. Recently much progress has been made towards the creation of accurate, physically-based solar radiation formulations that can model this interaction over topographic and other surfaces (such as plant canopies) for a large range of spatial and temporal scales. ...

The application of gain-scheduled control to a pilot-scale solar power plant is described. A eld of parabolic collectors focus the solar radiation onto a tube where oil is pumped through in order to collect the solar power. The control problem is to keep the temperature of the oil leaving the eld at its desired value by manipulating the oil pump ow rate. It is shown that gain-scheduling can e e...

The solar and wind power generation is stochastic in nature. Consequently, it is difficult to obtain steady power output from these renewable sources. Storage element (mainly battery) used in typical solar/wind hybrid system has also its inherent shortcomings. However, power generation from renewable energy sources like solar and wind is having paramount significance in the context of impending...

This study presents a new dispatch model (SCSP) for a CSP plant based on a dynamic programing algorithm. The purpose is to investigate the cost of balancing a CSP plant in the Spanish electricity market. Results are presented for a parabolic plant in the Spanish market for years 2009, 2010 and 2011 using solar availability data at the Plataforma Solar, Andalucia, Spain. The variation of balanci...