Control Concept for a Molten Salt Receiver in Star Design
Development, Optimization and Testing With Cloud Passage Scenarios
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https://doi.org/10.52825/solarpaces.v1i.693Keywords:
Molten Salt Receiver, Star Design, Control Optimization, Cloud PassagesAbstract
A promising approach to reduce the system costs of molten salt solar receivers is to enable the irradiation of the absorber tubes on both sides. The star design is an innovative receiver design, pursuing this approach. The unconventional design leads to new challenges in controlling the system. This paper presents a control concept for a molten salt receiver system in star design. The control parameters are optimized in a defined test cycle by minimizing a cost function. The control concept is tested in realistic cloud passage scenarios based on real weather data. During these tests, the control system showed no sign of unstable behavior, but to perform sufficiently in every scenario further research and development like integrating Model Predictive Controls (MPCs) need to be done. The presented concept is a starting point to do so.
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