2017年10月15日 · Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) can play a fundamental role in the near future energy scenario, providing carbon-free, renewable and dispatchable electric energy to meet the increasing world energy demand.

2024年2月1日 · Integrating Brayton cycles, utilizing supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2) as a working medium, with a concentrating solar power (CSP) system is an attractive solution to enable high-temperature clean production of electricity. In this study, different power cycle configurations were coupled with the CSP system to examine and compare their ...

2020年3月1日 · The present paper employs an approach already presented by the authors to evaluate the potential of sCO 2 power cycles in CSP applications. This methodology relies on the fundamental thermodynamic features of the cycles, considered from a global standpoint for the entire design space, as opposed to the partial analysis of certain cycle layouts ...

Supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2) power cycles have the potential to reduce the cost of concentrating solar power (CSP) by far more efficiently converting high-temperature solar heat into electricity. The Solar Energy Technologies Office pursues dramatic cost reductions in technologies to make solar electricity available to all Americans.

This manuscript investigates the supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2) power cycle employed in the power block of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants—solar tower—as an alternative for solar desalination, developed with either distillation or reverse osmosis.

2019年12月3日 · SCO 2 power cycles integrated with concentrating solar power (CSP) are capable of enhancing the competitiveness of thermal solar electricity. This article makes a comprehensive review of supercritical CO 2 power cycles integrated with CSP. A detailed comparison of four typical CSP technologies is conducted, and the cost challenge of currently ...

2019年12月3日 · SCO2 power cycles integrated with concentrating solar power (CSP) are capable of enhancing the competitiveness of thermal solar electricity. This article makes a comprehensive review of supercritical CO2 power cycles integrated with CSP. A detailed comparison of four typical CSP technologies is conducted, and the cost challenge of …

2022年5月1日 · This study clarifies the advantages and challenges of applying sCO2 in combination with gas turbines, and it confirms the relevance of sCO2 systems for off-shore applications, calling for...

2022年10月13日 · Air-driven/sCO2 cycles have emerged as the newest critical solution that can lead to highly effective and flexible concentrated solar power (CSP) plants in line with the 2030 EU targets.

2017年5月1日 · This work presents a preliminary thermodynamic assessment of three different supercritical CO 2 (sCO 2) power cycles integrated in a high temperature solar tower system, working up to 800 °C.