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A Feasibility Analysis of a Solar Power Plant with Direct Steam Generation System in Sonora, Mexico

Version 1 : Received: 2 March 2023 / Approved: 3 March 2023 / Online: 3 March 2023 (03:44:17 CET)

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Enciso Contreras, E.; Saldaña, J.G.B.; Alejo, J.C.; Torres, C.D.C.G.; Bernal, J.A.J.; Vazquez, M.B.A. A Feasibility Analysis of a Solar Power Plant with Direct Steam Generation System in Sonora, Mexico. Energies 2023, 16, 4388. Enciso Contreras, E.; Saldaña, J.G.B.; Alejo, J.C.; Torres, C.D.C.G.; Bernal, J.A.J.; Vazquez, M.B.A. A Feasibility Analysis of a Solar Power Plant with Direct Steam Generation System in Sonora, Mexico. Energies 2023, 16, 4388.

Abstract

Power generation using renewable technologies has become a primordial option to satisfy the energy demand all over the world, being solar concentrating technologies widely applied for this purpose. A combination of Parabolic Trough Collector with Direct Steam Generation has been considered an excellent option for power generation, due to the economic cost and complexity in the plant are reduced. The thermal evaluation of the solar power plant as well as the PTC in the DSG process is very important in viability and economic analysis. In this sense, as the main objective of this work, a numerical tool for evaluating DSG with PTC technology has been developed. The software SOLEEC is a versatile, reliable, accurate and friendly to the user for thermally evaluating a DSG with PTC technology. The user has the possibility to compare the thermal behavior of different geometrical dimensions for a PTC; and even consider different materials; in order to satisfy the demand of superheated steam by a DSG process. The software has an error less than 5% when compared with literature results and in this paper is used to evaluate a power plant in Mexico obtaining that the change to DSG proposing different PTC could reduce the solar field about 35%.

Keywords

PTC; DSG; solar energy; power plant

Subject

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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