The CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) Plant with Brayton Cycle: A Third Generation CSP System

Huseyin Murat Cekirge; Serdar Eser Erturan; Richard Stanley Thorsen

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The CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) Plant with Brayton Cycle: A Third Generation CSP System

Huseyin Murat Cekirge, Serdar Eser Erturan, Richard Stanley Thorsen

Published in American Journal of Modern Energy (Volume 6, Issue 1)

Received: 28 January 2020 Accepted: 17 February 2020 Published: 26 February 2020

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The main goal of this study is that electricity unit price is lower than 6 cents (US) producing in a CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) plant. For this goal, the paper suggests an integrated facility with thermal energy storage. The plant includes heliostat area, air cavity receiver, gas turbine package (compressor, combustion chamber and generator), steam turbine and generator, heat exchanger, sensible thermal energy storage system and condenser. The process details are heated air through SIC (Silicon Carbide) air cavity tube receiver will be sent to the gas turbine (Brayton Cycle) and hot air from output of gas turbine will be source to heat exchanger to steam production. Steam from output of the heat exchanger will be supplied to the TES (Thermal Energy Storage) for its charging and second turbine (Rankine Cycle) for to generate electricity. Thus, the total efficiency of the plant reaches 55% during sunshine. Assumptions that is to calculate unit price are several schedules and interest rates for every year and amortization and taxation are ignored. With these assumptions, the paper's aim is achieving the goal with 5.7 US ¢/kWh_e for 13 years return time, %3 interest rate without subsidizing.

Published in	American Journal of Modern Energy (Volume 6, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajme.20200601.16
Page(s)	43-50
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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CSP, 3rd Generation CSP Plant, SIC, TES, Rankine Cycle, Brayton Cycle, CSP Tower Plant

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Huseyin Murat Cekirge; Serdar Eser Erturan; Richard Stanley Thorsen. The CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) Plant with Brayton Cycle: A Third Generation CSP System. Am. J. Mod. Energy 2020, 6(1), 43-50. doi: 10.11648/j.ajme.20200601.16

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Huseyin Murat Cekirge, Serdar Eser Erturan, Richard Stanley Thorsen. The CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) Plant with Brayton Cycle: A Third Generation CSP System. Am J Mod Energy. 2020;6(1):43-50. doi: 10.11648/j.ajme.20200601.16

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Huseyin Murat Cekirge

Mechanical Engineering, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, USA
Serdar Eser Erturan

Mechanical Engineering, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, USA
Richard Stanley Thorsen

Mechanical Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, USA

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AU  - Serdar Eser Erturan
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