Nils Ahlbrink
German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Germany
Boris Belhomme
German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Germany
Robert Pitz-Paal
German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Germany
Download articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp09430048Published in: Proceedings of the 7th International Modelica Conference; Como; Italy; 20-22 September 2009
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 43:80, p. 685-693
Published: 2009-12-29
ISBN: 978-91-7393-513-5
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
The start-up of the PS10 power plant in Seville; Spain; in 2007 marked the entrance of solar tower power plants into the commercial state. Questions about the right operational strategy; particularly during unsteady operation states; come to the fore; and therewith the need to carry out transient simulations of entire tower power plants including the heliostat field. Meeting this necessity; the presented simulation approach opens the way to transient full plant simulations of solar tower power plants. A detailed
heliostat field model was linked to a dynamic receiver model by coupling both simulation tools. A second coupling was established to a tool hosting a control panel of the heliostat field model. With this simulation approach; a start-up procedure and a tracking stop were simulated delivering different transient behaviors of local absorber temperatures and mass flows.