Optimization of multiple receivers solar power tower systems

E. Carrizosa, C. Domínguez-Bravo, E. Fernández-Cara and M. Quero

Energy, 2015, vol. 90, issue P2, 2085-2093

Abstract: 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 is a high dimensional optimization problem with black-box nonconvex objective function.

Keywords: Solar thermal power; Heliostat field layout; Nonconvex optimization; Greedy algorithm; Multiple receivers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.08.005

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