Small-Scale Solar Thermal Combined Cycle

Project Information

POLYPHEM

Grant agreement ID: 764048

DOI 10.3030/764048

Project closed

EC signature date 26 February 2018

Start date 1 April 2018

End date 31 August 2022

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Total cost € 4 975 961,25

EU contribution € 4 975 961,25

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

Deliverables

Documents, reports (17)

Commissioning
Report on the overall plant layout
Report on the benchmark of high temperature oxidation resistant materials and thermo-mechanical test campaign
Report on the lab test of the thermocline storage system
Measurement techniques and experimental protocols for the testing and evaluation of the prototype of plant
Report on the design and specifications for the integration of the whole TES in the POLYPHEM system
Report on the roadmap to a commercial deployment
Report on results of Life Cycle Assessment analysis
Report on the design and specifications of filler, tank and foundations
Report on performance assessment and model validation
Report on the modelling for thermo-hydraulic and ratcheting behaviours

Report on the modelling for thermohydraulic and ratcheting behaviours

Report on the market analysis and benchmarking with competing technologies
Final report on system model
Selected dataset of experimental data
Report on the filler material
Report on the financial model of the technology
Final report on the project exploitation initiatives and related impacts on innovation, including dissemination and communication activities

Final report on the project exploitation initiatives and related impacts on innovation including dissemination and communication activities

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (9)

Enclosure for the gas turbine
Recovery heat exchanger
Manufacturing/Installation of the solar receiver
Installation of the power block
Manufacturing/Installation of the thermal storage
Factory-pre-test of gas turbine package and ORC module
Turbine – Receiver interconnection tubing
Piping, auxiliary equipment and cable connections
Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) board

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Emissivity at high temperature of Ni-based superalloys for the design of solar receivers for future tower power plants

Author(s): Marianne Balat-Pichelin, Jean-Louis Sans, Eric Bêche, Ludovic Charpentier, Alain Ferrière, Sébastien Chomette
Published in: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Issue 227, 2021, Page(s) 111066, ISSN 0927-0248
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2021.111066

Erratum to ‘Emissivity at high temperature of Ni-based superalloys for the design of solar receivers for future tower power plants’ [Solar Energy Mater. Solar Cells, 227, (2021), 111066]

Author(s): Marianne Balat-Pichelina, Jean-Louis Sans, Eric Bêche, Ludovic Charpentier, Alain Ferrière, Sébastien Chomette
Published in: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2021, ISSN 0927-0248
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2021.111228

Optimization of Solar Tower molten salt cavity receivers for maximum yield based on annual performance assessment

Author(s): Peter Schöttl, Gregor Bern, De Wet van Rooyen, José Antonio Fernández Pretel, Thomas Fluri, Peter Nitz
Published in: Solar Energy, Issue 199, 2020, Page(s) 278-294, ISSN 0038-092X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2020.02.007

Conference proceedings (3)

Next Generation of Concentrated Solar Power Technologies

Author(s): Tatiana Loureiro, Raymond Sterling, Claudio Testani, Elena Torralba-Calleja, Luca Turchetti, Manuel Blanco, Alain Ferriere, Fabrizio Perrotta
Published in: Proceedings, Issue 20/1, 2019, Page(s) 7, ISSN 2504-3900
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/proceedings2019020007

Prediction of thermocline zone development at the beginning of dynamic processes in single storage tanks with liquid media

Author(s): Rocío Bayón, Esther Rojas
Published in: SOLARPACES 2019: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, 2020, Page(s) 190001
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0028900

The POLYPHEM project: An innovative small-scale solar thermal combined cycle

Author(s): Alain Ferriere, Sebastien Chomette, Esther Rojas, Juan-Manuel Caruncho, Thomas Fluri, Daniel Ipse, Richard Aumann, Marie Prouteau, Jens Jorgen Falsig
Published in: SOLARPACES 2018: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, Issue Volume 2126, Issue 1 JULY 2019, 2019, Page(s) 030022
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.5117534