Techno-economic analysis of hybrid ACC performance under different meteorological conditions

Jacques du Plessis and Michael Owen

Energy, 2022, vol. 255, issue C

Abstract: A hybrid air-cooled condenser (ACC) concept has demonstrated to provide performance benefits over a conventional ACC. Additional to the thermal performance, the cost effectiveness should also be considered to determine the commercial viability, and therefore this study interrogates the techno-economic feasibility of a hybrid ACC at six locations with a ∼238 MW steam turbine representative of a typical CSP or NGCC plant. In this paper the hybrid ACC, is compared to a conventional ACC in terms of annual performance and annualized cost. The annualized cost of the hybrid ACC relative to the conventional ACC is expressed as a cost ratio φₐ, and consideration is given to a range of water and hybrid unit capital costs.

Keywords: Hybrid cooling; Power generation; Air-cooled condenser; Annual performance; Energy system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2022.124494

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