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Robust Optimal Aiming Strategies in Concentrated Solar Tower Power Plants

Published: 2019/09/16

Robust Optimization aiming strategy, mixed-integer linear programming, robust optimization, solar thermal power, uncertainty quantification

A concentrated solar tower power plant consists of a receiver mounted atop of a central tower and a field of movable mirrors called heliostats. The heliostats concentrate solar radiation onto the receiver where a fluid is heated to produce electricity in a conventional thermodynamic cycle. Aiming strategies are used to assign each heliostat to an … Read more

Optimization of multiple receivers solar power tower systems

Published: 2015/03/26, Updated: 2016/03/30

Emilio Carrizosa

Carmen-Ana Domínguez-Bravo

Enrique Fernández-Cara

Manuel Quero

Applications - Science and Engineering, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization greedy algorithm, heliostat field layout, multiple receivers, nonconvex optimization, solar thermal power

In this article a new procedure to optimize the design of a solar power tower system with multiple receivers is presented. The variables related to the receivers (height, aperture tilt angle, azimuth angle and aperture size) as well as the heliostat field layout are optimized seeking to minimize the levelized cost of thermal energy. This … Read more