Conceptual design of a concentrating solar power plant for a combined electricity and water supply of the city El Gouna

The cogeneration of power and water in large concentrating solar power (CSP) plants with thermal storage can have significant energetic and economic benefits to supply regions with high direct irradiation and good seawater access. Due to increasing water scarcity, the Middle-East North-Africa (MENA) region has a high demand of desalinated water and a strongly increasing energy demand which cannot be completely covered using fossil fuels. In the first six chapters of the thesis, a combined approach of power generation by a solar tower plant and a thermal seawater desalination unit is examined in detail. In order to perform the analysis, the most commercialized and demonstrated technologies are derived from literature and modeled for an integrated simulation. The applied thermal desalination technology bases on a new process using an improved internal heat transfer which has been extensively tested. The obtained data have been used to derive a simulation to integrate the desalination unit as power plant condenser. The results of the energy analysis are presented by different parameter variations of boundary conditions in order to examine the most important design factors. The exergy analysis points out thermodynamic ineffciencies in certain components of the CSP plant, the heat exchangers of the desalination unit and the power plant condenser. The economic analysis focuses on capital and operational expenditures as well as the derivation of optimal cogeneration ratios based on different product prices. All simulations are carried out using real meteorological measurement data by a weather station in El Gouna, Egypt. The obtained meteorological data are compared to literature and satellite data obtained by yearly observations. In the last chapter, the simulated cogeneration system is then used to build a real demand scenario of El Gouna. The scenario is developed in order to optimize the share of renewable energy supply. This requires the integration of a photovoltaic and a wind power plant to complement the renewable power generation. The analysis shows that the integrated energy supply system covers up to 71 % of the annual energy at around 17 ¢/kWh and up to 31 % of the yearly water demand. In addition, a new process for a short-term storage of surplus power is proposed and analyzed. The surplus power is converted into heat and stored in the thermal storage system of the CSP plant which results in an extended operation time and increased capacity factor.

Author dc:creator

• Wellmann, Johannes

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Behrendt, Frank

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• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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en

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http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-4943

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oai:depositonce.tu-berlin.de:11303/5249