Techno-Economic Assessment of Heat Transfer Fluid Buffering for Thermal Energy Storage in the Solar Field of Parabolic Trough Solar Thermal Power Plants

Currently, operating parabolic trough (PT) solar thermal power plants, either solar-only or with thermal storage block, use the solar field as a heat transfer fluid (HTF) thermal storage system to provide extra thermal capacity when it is needed. This is done by circulating heat transfer fluid into...

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Main Authors: Jorge M. Llamas, David Bullejos, Manuel Ruiz de Adana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-08-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/8/1123