Direct steam generation for CSP with linear concentrators

The project's primary goal is to construct a comprehensive thermal-hydraulic model applicable to linear solar concentrators like PTC and LFR, utilizing water (direct steam generation, DSG) or thermal oil as heat transfer fluids. This model facilitates solar field area determination, fluid temperature prediction at the receiver, and two-phase flow pattern analysis in DSG, alongside evaluating solar field energy and efficiency. Initially, solar-only plants were the focus, but current efforts include exploring hybridization with geothermal to enhance steam quality and facility efficiency.

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PI PhD Eduardo González-Mora (UAEMéx)

Co-PI PhD Ma. Dolores Durán-García (UAEMéx)

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Principal collaborators

PhD Álvaro E. Lentz-Herrera (UACM)

Publications

Propuesta de eliminación del coeficiente convectivo h para el modelado de flujo bifásico en concentradores parabólicos

Eduardo González‐Mora, Ma. Dolores Duran García

XVIII Congreso Ibérico y XIV Congreso Iberoamericano de Energía Solar, Palma, 2022

Approaching a LFR Direct Steam Generation Power Plant Towards an Endoreversible Heat Engine

Eduardo González-Mora, Ma. Dolores Durán-García

Artur Zaporozhets, Advanced Energy Technologies and Systems I, chapter 2, Springer, 2022, pp. 21--44

Energy and Exergy (2E) Analysis of an Optimized Solar Field of Linear Fresnel Reflectors for a Conceptual Direct Steam Generation Power Plant

Eduardo González-Mora, Ma. Dolores Durán-García

Energies, vol. 14, 2021 Jul, p. 4234

Methodology for an Opto-Geometric Optimization of a Linear Fresnel Reflector for Direct Steam Generation

Eduardo González-Mora, Ma. Dolores Durán-García

Energies, vol. 13, 2020, p. 355

Comparativa del rendimiento teórico máximo y estimado de una planta solar de generación directa de vapor

Eduardo González‐Mora, Ma. Dolores Durán-García

Helder Gonçalves, Manuel Romero, XVII Congreso Ibérico y XIII Congreso Iberoamericano de Energía Solar, Lisboa, 2020, pp. 137--144

Análisis 2E de diferentes configuraciones de plantas solares de generación directa de vapor empleando reflectores Fresnel

Eduardo González-Mora

Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2019, p. 179

Energy and Exergy (2E) Analysis of an Optimized Linear Fresnel Reflector for a Conceptual Direct Steam Generation Power Plant

Eduardo González-Mora, Ma. Dolores Durán-García

Proceedings of the ISES Solar World Congress 2019, International Solar Energy Society, Freiburg, Germany, 2019, pp. 1--12

Optimización óptica de un reflector Fresnel lineal para generación directa de vapor

Eduardo González-Mora, Ma. Dolores Durán-García

XLII SEMANA NACIONAL DE ENERGIA SOLAR, México, 2018

Optimización óptica de un reflector Fresnel lineal para generación directa de vapor

Eduardo González-Mora, Ma. Dolores Durán-García

Congreso Nacional de Estudiantes en Energías Renovables, Temixco, 2018