Thermal Energy Storage with Concentrated Solar Power for a More Reliable and Affordable Electricity to Industrial Applications
Abstract
The implementation of Concentrated Solar Power for industrial applications has become a topic of high interest both for CSP plants developers and potential client industries. The integration of CSP for industrial processes can be done follow various needs ranging from power generation to steam generation, drying, heating and even cooling applications. Although the interest for the latter “less common” applications has gained more importance for researchers over power generation, this options has still a lot of interest for industrials especially when this power generation can be more flexible and cheaper thanks to a good Thermal Storage System integration and to encouraging market conditions and availability of the solar resource. In this paper we studied the possibility for large industrial facilities to exploit small scale CSP plants as fossil fuel and grid saving mechanism considering the variable grid pricing and an appropriate TES integration.
Keywords
Concentrated solar power (csp), Thermal energy storage (tes), Industrial application...