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Proposal of a new design of source heat exchanger for the technical feasibility of solar thermal plants coupled to supercritical power cycles

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dc.contributor.authorLinares Hurtado, José Ignacio
dc.contributor.authorMontes Pita, María José
dc.contributor.authorBarbero Fresno, Rubén
dc.contributor.authorRovira de Antonio, Antonio José
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-20T11:41:26Z
dc.date.available2024-05-20T11:41:26Z
dc.date.issued2020-10-12
dc.description.abstractSolar thermal power plants coupled to supercritical CO2 cycles seems to be a way to increase the global solar-to-electric efficiency. For that, the concentrating solar technology that is best integrated is the molten salt central receiver with a thermal energy storage associated. This work is focused on one of the main challenges of this scheme: the source heat exchanger transferring the thermal energy from the molten salt in the solar field to the CO2 in the power cycle. A new design, based on the printed circuit heat exchanger technology is proposed, that withstands the pressure difference and avoids the molten salt plugging when circulating through microchannels. The thermo-mechanic model of this heat exchanger is also calculated. This work also addresses a thermo-economic optimization of the printed circuit heat exchanger proposed. For that, it is considered the global performance of the solar thermal plant for three layouts: recompression, intercooling and partial-cooling cycles. This optimization yields to a great reduction in the investment cost of these source heat exchangers, achieving the lowest cost in the partial-cooling configuration, followed by the intercooling and finally, the recompression. This trend is also observed in the global performance of the solar plant, so the partial-cooling layout is the one with the lowest levelized cost of electricity; this value is similar to that of the intercooling layout, and both are well below from the cost in the recompression layout, which results the most expensive configuration.en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.10.042
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/12423
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.centerE.T.S. de Ingenieros Industriales
dc.relation.departmentIngeniería Energética
dc.rightsAtribución 4.0 Internacional
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subject.keywordssolar thermal power plants
dc.subject.keywordssupercritical power cycles
dc.subject.keywordsprinted circuit heat exchanger design
dc.subject.keywordsmolten salt clogging issue mitigation
dc.subject.keywordsthermo-economic optimization
dc.subject.keywordssavings-to-investment ratio method
dc.titleProposal of a new design of source heat exchanger for the technical feasibility of solar thermal plants coupled to supercritical power cycleses
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