#BASICS SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANT SIMULATION SIMULATOR#

#BASICS SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANT SIMULATION SIMULATOR#

The ST-PPTS libraries have been used for developing a simulator for a solar-thermal power plant with parabolic collectors with thermal energy storage and fossil-fired backup systems in order to study the typical transients of this type of power plants: start-up, shutdown passing clouds, a trip in some equipment, heat transfer from/to the thermal energy storage etc. SOLAR THERMAL PLANT Library: Library that includes specific components for modeling thermal solar power plant like currently parabolic trough solar collectors, expansion tanks, auxiliary boilers, etc and mirrors and tower in the next future. Heat Transfer fluid and refrigeration fluid circuits can be modeled with this library, for example the HTF system of a solar power plant or the primary circuit of a nuclear power plant. HEAT TRANSFER FLUID SYSTEM Library: This library is used for representing 1D non-compressible fluid flow. Heat exchangers where one of the two sides is gas and the other side is steam and/or water, are part of this library.Д¬FBC Library: This library consists of a set of components needed to represent a Circulating Fluidized Bed combustor the flue gas path, oxidant inlets and oxidant re-circulations. GAS PATH Library: This library includes a set of components needed to represent the 1D gas flows in the system, i.e. STEAM-WATER SYSTEM Library: This library consists of a set of components that represents the typical plant equipment working only with steam and/or water for modeling Rankine cycles, such as the condenser, feed water heaters, moisture separator, control valves, attemperators, steam and water pipes, etc These libraries have been used in several successful application cases.ДЄ short description of each library follows: The models can be used either directly in its development & simulation environment or be easily connected to a Human Machine Interface (HMI) application to develop an engineering and/or partial training simulator. PPTS models can be used throughout the project development process for supporting different design activities. PPTS (Power Plant Transient Simulation), currently an EA International in-house toolkit, provides modelling components to represent the typical hardware and controls of a power plant, currently available for: fossil (Combined Gas Cycle and Coal), nuclear (secondary side), thermosolar and hybrid, and advanced generation (Coal Oxy-combustion).

Basics solar thermal power plant simulation