SOLAR based sCO2 Operating Low-cost plants

Project Information

SOLARSCO2OL

Grant agreement ID: 952953

DOI 10.3030/952953

EC signature date 10 July 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 31 July 2025

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Total cost € 13 232 779,03

EU contribution € 9 999 997,51

Coordinated by

RINA CONSULTING SPA
Italy

Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

First Stakeholder vision report

Description of SOLARSCO2OL Stakeholders group activities during the first half of the project and presentation of collected insights and feedback. Presentation of the interactions performed via surveys, questionnaires, interviews and dedicated events towards both market roll-out and policy promotion – T8.2

Operational envelope of sCO2 demo cycle

Analysis of sCO2 power block operational constraints also according to La Africana Demosite control and monitoring system and operation performances. Identification of critical operating parameters and operational constraints of the demo cycle as well as of parameters to be controlled - T5.1

SOLARSCO2OL Data Management Plan

Report describing how to handle project research data according both to ethical industrial confidentiality and GDPR issues T91

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

Public communication materials (i.e. logo, leaflet, poster)

Description of graphical image and printed dissemination materials to be used to promote SOLARSCO2OL project – T8.1

SOLARSCO2OL Public Website integrated with social media

Description of SOLARSCO2OL public website and social media accounts to be used to promote SOLARSCO2OL project – T8.1

SOLARSCO2OL Video

First Project video describing Project objectives, consortium and demosite – T8.1

Publications

Conference proceedings (4)

Part-Load Behaviour and Control Philosophy of a Recuperated Supercritical CO2 Cycle

Author(s): Gini, Lorenzo; Maccarini, Simone; Traverso, Alberto; Emanuel, Pesatori; Alberto, Milani; Valentina, Bisio; Roberto, Valente; Barberis, Stefano; Rafael, Guedez
Published in: Proceeding of ASME Turbo Expo, Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: AME
DOI: 10.1115/gt2022-83021

Techno-Economic Optimization of a Hybrid PV-CSP Plant With Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage and Supercritical CO2 Brayton Power Cycle

Author(s): Salvatore Guccione, Silvia Trevisan, Rafael Guedez, Björn Laumert, Simone Maccarini, Alberto Traverso
Published in: Proceeding of ASME Turbo Expo, 2022
Publisher: AME
DOI: 10.1115/gt2022-80376

Thermodynamic Analysis of a Hybrid PV-Particle Based sCO2 Concentrating Solar Power Plant

Author(s): Salvatore Guccione, Silvia Trevisan, Rafael Guedez, and Björn Laumert
Published in: AIP Conference Proceedings, 2022
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0149553

Design of a 2 MW Molten Salt Driven Supercritical CO2 Cycle and Turbomachinery for the SOLARSCO2OL Demonstration Project

Author(s): Rafael Guédez, Stefano Barberis, Simone Maccarini, Anton López-Román, Alberto Milani, Emanuel Pesatori, Unai Oyarzábal, Alvaro Sánchez
Published in: ASME Turbo Expo, 2022
Publisher: AME
DOI: 10.1115/gt2022-82013

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Techno-economic optimisation of a sodium–chloride salt heat exchanger for concentrating solar power applications

Author(s): Salvatore Guccione; Armando Fontalvo; Rafael Guedez; John Pye; Laura Savoldi; Roberto Zanino
Published in: Journal of Solar Energy, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0038-092X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2022.04.052

A prototype recuperated supercritical co2 cycle: Part-load and dynamic assessment

Author(s): Lorenzo Gini, Simone Maccarini, Alberto Traverso, Stefano Barberis, Rafael Guedez, Emanuel Pesatori, Valentina Bisio
Published in: Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023, ISSN 1359-4311
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2023.120152

Techno-economic optimization of molten salt based CSP plants through integration of supercritical CO2 cycles and hybridization with PV and electric heaters

Author(s): Salvatore Guccione and Rafael Guedez
Published in: Energy, 2023, ISSN 0360-5442
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2023.128528