Imperial College London
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Professor Nilay Shah OBE FREng

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering

Professor of Process Systems Engineering
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 6621n.shah

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Jessica Baldock +44 (0)20 7594 5699

 
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Location

 

ACEX 522ACE ExtensionSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Pantaleo:2020:10.1016/j.renene.2018.08.022,
author = {Pantaleo, AM and Camporeale, S and Sorrentino, A and Miliozzi, A and Shah, N and Markides, C},
doi = {10.1016/j.renene.2018.08.022},
journal = {Renewable Energy},
pages = {2913--2931},
title = {Hybrid solar-biomass combined Brayton/organic Rankine-cycle plants integrated with thermal storage: Techno-economic feasibility in select Mediterranean areas},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.08.022},
volume = {147},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper presents a thermodynamic analysis and techno-economic assessment of a novel hybrid solar-biomass power-generation system configuration composed of an externally fired gas-turbine (EFGT) fuelled by biomass (wood chips) and a bottoming organic Rankine cycle (ORC) plant. The main novelty is related to the heat recovery from the exhaust gases of the EFGT via thermal energy storage (TES), and integration of heat from a parabolic-trough collectors (PTCs) field with molten salts as a heat-transfer fluid (HTF). The presence of a TES between the topping and bottoming cycles facilitates the flexible operation of the system, allows the system to compensate for solar energy input fluctuations, and increases capacity factor and dispatchability. A TES with two molten salt tanks (one cold at 200°C and one hot at 370°C) is chosen. The selected bottoming ORC is a superheated recuperative cycle suitable for heat conversion in the operating temperature range of the TES. The whole system is modelled by means of a Python-based software code, and three locations in the Mediterranean area are assumed in order to perform energy-yield analyses: Marseille in France, Priolo Gargallo in Italy and Rabat in Morocco. In each case, the thermal storage that minimizes the levelized cost of energy (LCE) is selected on the basis of the estimated solar radiation and CSP size. The results of the thermodynamic simulations, capital and operational costs assessments and subsidies (feed-in tariffs for biomass and solar electricity available in the Italian framework), allow estimating the global energy conversion efficiency and the investment profitability in the three locations. Sensitivity analyses of the biomass costs, size of PTCs, feed-in tariff and share of cogenerated heat delivered to the load are also performed. The results show that the high investment costs of the CSP section in the proposed size range and hybridization configuration allow investment profitability only in the
AU  - Pantaleo,AM
AU  - Camporeale,S
AU  - Sorrentino,A
AU  - Miliozzi,A
AU  - Shah,N
AU  - Markides,C
DO  - 10.1016/j.renene.2018.08.022
EP  - 2931
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1879-0682
SP  - 2913
TI  - Hybrid solar-biomass combined Brayton/organic Rankine-cycle plants integrated with thermal storage: Techno-economic feasibility in select Mediterranean areas
T2  - Renewable Energy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.08.022
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/63316
VL  - 147
ER  -
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