Performance Analysis of the 50 MW Concentrating Solar Power Plant under Various Operation Conditions

Enkhbayar Shagdar; Bachirou Guene Lougou; Batmunkh Sereeter; Yong Shuai; Azeem Mustafa; Enkhjin Ganbold; Dongmei Han

doi:10.3390/en15041367

Energies (Feb 2022)

Performance Analysis of the 50 MW Concentrating Solar Power Plant under Various Operation Conditions

Enkhbayar Shagdar,
Bachirou Guene Lougou,
Batmunkh Sereeter,
Yong Shuai,
Azeem Mustafa,
Enkhjin Ganbold,
Dongmei Han

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Enkhbayar Shagdar: School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin 150001, China
Bachirou Guene Lougou: School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin 150001, China
Batmunkh Sereeter: School of Power Engineering, Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST), Ulaanbaatar 14191, Mongolia
Yong Shuai: School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin 150001, China
Azeem Mustafa: School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin 150001, China
Enkhjin Ganbold: School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology (HUST), Harbin 150001, China
Dongmei Han: School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin 150001, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en15041367
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15, no. 4
p. 1367

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Power generation using concentrating solar energy is a potential solution to provide clean, green, and sustainable power generation in the long term. The objective of this paper is to analyze the performance of a parabolic trough collector-based concentrating solar power (CSP) plant by selecting four different reference days (i.e., 22 March, 22 June, 22 September, and 22 December), representing four seasons in Mongolian climate conditions. Numerical simulation of the 50 MW CSP plant was performed, both at nominal and part-load conditions using the heat balance method considering variations of power load owing to the direct normal irradiation (DNI). The results revealed that the 50 MW CSP plant could operate well throughout the year, and it showed the highest value of operating performance for the 22 June due to the higher DNI and small solar incidence angle. The operating performance for the 22 March and 22 September is nearly similar. The lowest value of operating performance occurred on the 22 December. Moreover, the operating performance of the CSP plant in the part-load conditions was significantly reduced compared to the nominal load owing to the DNI fluctuation. This study also revealed that the CSP plant could significantly contribute to environmental protection and climate change mitigation.

Published in Energies

ISSN: 1996-1073 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology
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