Chemical Engineering Transactions (Sep 2012)

Dynamic Simulation of Concentrating Solar Plants

  • P. Vitte,
  • F. Manenti,
  • S. Pierucci,
  • X. Joulia,
  • G. Buzzi-Ferraris

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3303/CET1229040
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29

Abstract

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The discontinuous nature of the solar power forces to study the dynamic behavior of solar plants to characterize their operations, to deepen their process understanding and to improve the performance and maintenance. The present paper described the dynamic simulation of concentrating solar plants with the aim to define a reasonable simplified layout as well as to highlight the main issues to characterize the process dynamics of these systems.