Lesson learned during the designing and construction phases of the ORC-plus thermal energy storage system of 20 MWH

Walter Gaggioli; El Ghali Bennouna; Hassan Agalit; Alessandro Prati; Roberto Lino; Abdessamad Faik; Thomas Fluri; Martin Karl; Theda Zoschke

doi:10.1063/5.0028782

Lesson learned during the designing and construction phases of the ORC-plus thermal energy storage system of 20 MWH

Walter Gaggioli^*, El Ghali Bennouna, Hassan Agalit, Alessandro Prati, Roberto Lino, Abdessamad Faik, Thomas Fluri, Martin Karl, Theda Zoschke

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Abstract

A limitation to the expansion of medium sized Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants is represented by the lack of technical solutions of Thermal Energy Storage (TES) systems specialized for this size of CSP plants and validated in a relevant industrial environment. In order to make the medium sized CSP systems more competitive than PV systems, the TES system has to allow the operators of the solar power plant to adjust the electricity production for matching consumer demand, so enabling the sale of electricity during peak demand periods for boosting plant revenues. At the same time, there is the need of lowering the TES system weight in the capital costs of the overall system. The ORC-PLUS (Organic Rankine Cycle - Prototype Link to Storage Unit) Project aims to realize a demonstrator of a TES system optimized for a medium sized CSP plant coupled with an ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) turbine of 1 MWe. In this paper, the difficulties encountered during the manufacturing and commissioning operations of the TES system and their potential impact on capital costs will be reported.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SOLARPACES 2019
Subtitle of host publication	International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems
Editors	Christoph Richter
Publisher	AIP Publishing
ISBN (Electronic)	9780735440371
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0028782
Publication status	Published - 11 Dec 2020
Event	2019 International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2019 - Daegu, Korea, Republic of Duration: 1 Oct 2019 → 4 Oct 2019

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Name	AIP Conference Proceedings
Volume	2303
ISSN (Print)	0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)	1551-7616

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Conference	2019 International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2019
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Daegu
Period	1/10/19 → 4/10/19

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Gaggioli, W., Bennouna, E. G., Agalit, H., Prati, A., Lino, R., Faik, A., Fluri, T., Karl, M., & Zoschke, T. (2020). Lesson learned during the designing and construction phases of the ORC-plus thermal energy storage system of 20 MWH. In C. Richter (Ed.), SOLARPACES 2019: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems Article 0028782 (AIP Conference Proceedings; Vol. 2303). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0028782

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Gaggioli, W, Bennouna, EG, Agalit, H, Prati, A, Lino, R, Faik, A, Fluri, T, Karl, M & Zoschke, T 2020, Lesson learned during the designing and construction phases of the ORC-plus thermal energy storage system of 20 MWH. in C Richter (ed.), SOLARPACES 2019: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems., 0028782, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 2303, AIP Publishing, 2019 International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2019, Daegu, Korea, Republic of, 1/10/19. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0028782

Lesson learned during the designing and construction phases of the ORC-plus thermal energy storage system of 20 MWH. / Gaggioli, Walter; Bennouna, El Ghali; Agalit, Hassan et al.
SOLARPACES 2019: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems. ed. / Christoph Richter. AIP Publishing, 2020. 0028782 (AIP Conference Proceedings; Vol. 2303).

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Lesson learned during the designing and construction phases of the ORC-plus thermal energy storage system of 20 MWH

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