Javier Bonilla
CIEMAT- Plataforma Solar de Almería, Ctra, Spain
Lidia Roca
CIEMAT- Plataforma Solar de Almería, Ctra, Spain
Luis J. Yebra
CIEMAT- Plataforma Solar de Almería, Ctra, Spain
Sebastián Dormido
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp09430062Published in: Proceedings of the 7th International Modelica Conference; Como; Italy; 20-22 September 2009
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 43:39, p. 345-353
Published: 2009-12-29
ISBN: 978-91-7393-513-5
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
This paper presents a real-time heliostat field simulator; based on a hybrid model; using Modelica as the modelling language. The development of industrial dynamic simulators; in this work for a central receiver solar thermal power plant: CESA-I from CIEMAT-PSA; is mainly aimed as a tool for the enhancement of advanced control algorithms but it is also useful for training purposes. The developed real-time heliostat field simulator is basically the union of the hybrid heliostat field model and a wrapped model which handles the real-time simulation and communication issues between the heliostat field simulator and HelFiCo (Heliostat Field Control) software which is in charge of manipulating and controlling the heliostat field according to an automatic control strategy. The real-time heliostat field simulator provides a virtual system; with the same response as the real plant.
Real-time simulation; hybrid modelling; heliostat field; solar thermal power plant
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