• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.59-70
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• 2015

In India, continuous production of electricity and sweet/potable water from Solar power and desalination plant plays a major role in the industries. Particularly in Copper industry, Solar power adopts Solar field collector combined with thermal storage system and steam Boiler, Turbine & Generator (BTG) for electricity production and desalination plant adopts Reverse osmosis (RO) for sweet/potable water production which cannot be used for long hours of power generation and consistency of energy supply for industrial processes and power generation cannot be ensured. This paper presents an overview of enhanced technology for Solar power and Desalination plant for Copper industry making it continuous production of electricity and sweet/potable water. The conventional technology can be replaced with this proposed technique in the existing and upcoming industries.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국태양에너지학회 2012년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.274-279
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• 2012

Daegu Solar Power Tower Plant of 200 kW thermal capacity was developed for the first time in Korea, 2011. Measurement of the heat flux distribution is essential to evaluate the solar energy concentrated by reflectors and to design a suitable receiver. The flux mapping technique, which uses a radiometer and a diffuse plate, is common for measurement of the heat flux distribution. Because the solar power tower plant has a wide concentration area, the flux mapping technique using a fixed diffuse plate is difficult to apply. Therefore, the flux distribution in the solar power tower plant should be measured by the flux mapping technique using a small moving bar. In this study, we measured flux distributions with the moving-bar system developed at the KIER solar furnace and evaluated its applicability for the solar power tower plant.

• 플랜트 저널
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.42-46
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• 2018

The flow and heat transfer characteristics inside a solar chimney power plant system are analyzed in this article. 3-D model with the $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence closure was developed. In this model, to solve the radiative transfer equation the discrete ordinates radiation model was implemented, using a two-band radiation model. To simulate radiation effects from the sun's rays, the solar ray tracing algorithm was coupled to the calculation via a source term in the energy equation. Simulations were carried out for a system with the geometry parameters of the Manzanares power plant. Based on the numerical results, the velocity and temperature distributions were illustrated and the results were validated by comparing with experimental data of the Manzanares prototype power plant. Moreover, temperature profile of the ground surface of the system was illustrated.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.161-164
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• 2008

For the development of solar thermal power tower plant from the early 80' to today, various kinds of receiver have been tested and evaluated. Most of 1st generation receiver used water/steam as a working fluid to operate steam turbine and now the first commercial solar power tower PS-10 also makes saturated steam. However, to increase thermal efficiency of storage system and to obtain practical use of solar energy, molten salt system have been used from THEMIS project in France at 1984. The Solar Tres plant of 17 MWe power generation will be constructed in Spain and have plan to operate 24 hours in summer. The air volumetric receiver system can be integrated with combined cycle of gas turbine and HRSG and also with steam turbine easily. Therefore, related researches to develop higher efficient solar power tower plant and to operate with stable are widely performed in the world.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.185-202
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• 2022

This research work focuses to design and simulate a 200W solar power system with electrical power conservation scheme as well as thermal power conservation modeling to improve power extraction from solar power plant. Many researchers have been already designed and developed different methods to extract maximum power while there were very researches are available on improving solar power thermally and mechanically. Thermal parameters are also important while discussing about maximizing power extraction of any power plant. A specific type of coolant which have very high boiling point is proposed to be use at the bottom surface of solar panel to reduce the temperature of panel in summer. A comparison between different maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique and proposed MPPT technique is performed. Using this proposed Thermo-electrical MPPT (TE-MPPT) with Deep Learning Algorithm model 40% power is conserved as compared to traditional solar power system models.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.80-88
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• 2011

Heliostat in the tower type solar thermal power plant is a sun tracking mirror system to reflect the solar energy to the receiver and the optical performance of it affects to the efficiency of whole power plant most significantly. Thus a solid understanding of heliostat's energy concentration characteristics is the most important step in designing of the heliostat field and the whole power plant. The work presented here is the analysis of energy concentration characteristics of heliostat used in 200kW solar thermal power plant, where the receiver located at 43m high in tower has $2{\times}2$m rectangular shape. The heliostat reflective surface is formed by 4 of $1{\times}1$m flat plate mirror facet and the mirror facet is mounted on the spherical frame. The direct normal incident radiation models in vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox and winter solstice are first derived from the actually measured data. Then the intercept ratio, heat flux distribution and total energy collected at the receiver for the heliostats located in the various places of the heliostat field are investigated. Finally the effect of mirror facet installation error on the optical performance of the heliostat is analyzed.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.53-62
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• 2011

Heliostat in the tower type solar thermal power plant is a sun tracking mirror system to reflect the solar energy to the receiver and the optical performance of it affects to the efficiency of whole power plant most significantly. Thus a proper design of structure of the heliostat reflective surface could be the most important step in the construction of such power plant. The work presented here is a design of structure of optical surface of heliostat, which will be used in 200kW solar thermal power plant. The receiver located at 43(m) high from ground in tower has $2{\times}2$(m) rectangular shape. We first developed the software tool to simulate the energy concentration characteristics of heliostat using the ray tracing technique. Then, the shape of heliostat reflective surface is designed with the consideration of heliostat's energy concentration characteristics, production cost and productivity. The designed heliostat's reflective surface has a structure formed by canting four of $1{\times}1$(m) rectangular flat plate mirror facet and the center of each mirror facet is located on the spherical surface, where the spherical surface is formulated by the mirror facet mounting frame.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.50-57
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• 2009

Heliostat in the tower type solar thermal power plant is a mirror system tracking the sun's movement to collect the solar energy and it is the most important subsystem determining the efficiency of solar thermal power plant. Thus a good performance of it, which is mostly the accurate sun tracking performance under the various hazardous operating condition, is required. Heliostat control system is a system to manage the heliostat sun tracking movement and other operations. It also communicates with the master controller through the heliostat filed control system to receive and send the informations required to operate the heliostat as a part of the solar thermal power plant. This study presents a heliostat control system designed and developed for the 1MW solar thermal power plant. We first define the functionality of heliostat control system. Then sun tracking controller as well as the sun tracking algorithm satisfying the required functionality have been developed. We tested the developed heliostat control system and it showed a good performance in regulation of heliostat motion and communication.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 강원 지역의 산지 태양광 발전시설이 설치된 지역의 사면 특성을 분석하기 위해, GIS 기법과 위성지도를 활용하여 강릉과 원주 지역의 태양광 발전시설 설치현황을 조사하였다. 강릉과 원주 지역의 태양광 발전시설은 각각 36, 48개소의 발전시설이 설치되어 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 강릉과 원주 지역의 태양광 발전시설 설치지역에 대한 지형자료를 수집하여 면적, 사면경사, 해발고도 등의 데이터베이스를 구축하였다. 이후 구축된 데이터베이스를 활용하여 강릉과 원주 지역의 산지 태양광 발전 시설이 설치된 지역의 사면 특성을 분석하였다. 분석결과, 원주 지역의 사면은 강릉 지역 보다 더 높은 사면경사를 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 강릉과 원주 지역의 태양광 시설 내에서 15°와 34° 이상의 최대경사를 갖는 지역이 상당수 존재하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2023

태양광 발전소의 발전량은 기상 조건, 지리적 조건, 태양광 패널 설치 조건과 높은 상관관계를 갖는다. 과거 연구들에서는 발전량에 영향을 미치는 요소를 찾아내었고, 그 중 일부는 태양광 패널이 최대 전력량을 생산할 수 있는 최적의 조건을 찾았었다. 하지만, 태양광발전소 설치 시 현실적 제약을 고려하면 최대 발전량 조건을 만족시키기는 매우 어렵다. 발전소 소유자가 태양광발전소 설치를 검토할 때 태양광 발전량을 예측하기 위해서는 발전량에 영향을 미치는 요인들의 민감도를 알아야 한다. 본 논문에서는 태양광발전소의 발전량과 날씨, 위치, 설치 조건 등 관련 요인들과의 관계를 분석하기 위한 다항회귀분석 방법을 제안한다. 분석자료는 대구, 경북에 설치·운영되는 태양광발전소 11개소로부터 수집하였다. 분석 결과 발전량은 패널 종류, 일사량, 음영 유무에 영향을 받으며 패널 설치 각도와 방향이 복합적인 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다.