System Advisor Model (SAM) Improvements for Emerging Solar Thermal Applications

Research output: NLRPoster

Abstract

The System Advisor Model (SAM) is an open-source tool developed by NREL to simulate the techno-economic performance of technologies like photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind, and geothermal. NREL has recently completed, active, and planned projects to improve the solar thermal models in SAM and its underlying code base to represent emerging component technologies, systems, and applications. This poster describes new capabilities in the SolarPILOT optical modeling tool, supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycles, and solar industrial process heat.
Original languageAmerican English
PublisherNational Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Number of pages1
StatePublished - 2024

Publication series

NamePresented at the 30th SolarPACES Conference, 8-11 October 2024, Rome, Italy

NLR Publication Number

  • NREL/PO-5700-91498

Keywords

  • hybrid solar
  • industrial process heat
  • SAM
  • SolarPILOT
  • supercritical carbon dioxide power cycle
  • System Advisor Model
  • thermal energy storage

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