Approaching a LFR Direct Steam Generation Power Plant Towards an Endoreversible Heat Engine

Book chapter

Eduardo González-Mora, Ma. Dolores Durán-García
Artur Zaporozhets, Advanced Energy Technologies and Systems I, chapter 2, Springer, 2022, pp. 21--44

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85746-2_2

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González-Mora, E., & Durán-García, M. D. (2022). Approaching a LFR Direct Steam Generation Power Plant Towards an Endoreversible Heat Engine. In A. Zaporozhets (Ed.), Advanced Energy Technologies and Systems I (pp. 21–44). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85746-2_2

Chicago/Turabian Click to copy
González-Mora, Eduardo, and Ma. Dolores Durán-García. “Approaching a LFR Direct Steam Generation Power Plant Towards an Endoreversible Heat Engine.” In Advanced Energy Technologies and Systems I, edited by Artur Zaporozhets, 21–44. Springer, 2022.

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González-Mora, Eduardo, and Ma. Dolores Durán-García. “Approaching a LFR Direct Steam Generation Power Plant Towards an Endoreversible Heat Engine.” Advanced Energy Technologies and Systems I, edited by Artur Zaporozhets, Springer, 2022, pp. 21–44, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-85746-2_2.

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@incollection{gonz2022a,
  title = {Approaching a LFR Direct Steam Generation Power Plant Towards an Endoreversible Heat Engine},
  year = {2022},
  chapter = {2},
  pages = {21--44},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-85746-2_2},
  author = {González-Mora, Eduardo and Durán-García, Ma. Dolores},
  editor = {Zaporozhets, Artur},
  booktitle = {Advanced Energy Technologies and Systems I}
}

Abstract

Concentrated solar power, or solar thermal energy, has proven to be a renewable alternative for the production of power, using different technologies that allow the use of thermal energy from the Sun to reach temperatures high enough to drive a thermal engine, mainly steam Rankine cycles and thus be able to convert thermal energy into electrical energy that can be supplied into the electricity grid. However, like any engineering development, it is sought to optimize some processes to increase the overall performance of the system and reach the highest possible efficiency. In the present Chapter, the proposed design and optimization of a direct steam generation linear Fresnel reflector power plant leads to an efficiency close to the endoreversible model efficiency, so the analyzed configurations will be working at near maximum power condition with high possible efficiency.