CSP Plant Construction, Start-Up, and O&M Best Practices Study

Hank Price; Mark Mehos; Robert Cable; David Kearney; Bruce Kelly; Greg Kolb; Fred Morse

doi:10.1063/5.0028859

CSP Plant Construction, Start-Up, and O&M Best Practices Study

Hank Price, Mark Mehos, Robert Cable, David Kearney, Bruce Kelly, Greg Kolb, Fred Morse

Center for Energy Conversion and Storage Systems

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Abstract

There are currently 90 operational CSP plants of 10 MW or larger located throughout the world, primarily in Spain, U.S., MENA region, South Africa, and China. In 2018, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded Solar Dynamics, under subcontract to NREL, to investigate and document lessons learned and best practices associated with the construction, start-up, and operations phases of a majority of these plants. DOE funding for the effort was leveraged by additional funds provided through SolarPACES and the World Bank. This information was obtained by interviewing key stakeholders representing CSP plant owners, operators, construction companies, vendors, technical advisors and financers of these systems, and will be published as an NREL Technical Report at the completion of the project. This paper provides an overview of key challenges facing today’s CSP parabolic trough and power tower technologies during all the phases mentioned above.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0028859 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0028859
State	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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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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© 2020 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.

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NREL/CP-5700-78858

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CSP
solar thermal technologies

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Price, H., Mehos, M., Cable, R., Kearney, D., Kelly, B., Kolb, G., & Morse, F. (2020). CSP Plant Construction, Start-Up, and O&M Best Practices Study. Paper presented at 2019 International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2019, Daegu, Korea, Republic of. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0028859, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0028859

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