Method for operating a linear concentrator solar power plant, and linear concentrator solar power plant

US11209189B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Jürgen Wortmann · Weichs, DE
• Michael Lutz · Speyer, DE
• Katharina FEDERSEL · Heidelberg, DE
• Kerstin Schierle-Arndt · Zwingenberg, DE
• Stephan Maurer · Neustadt, DE
• Michael Ladenberger · Annweiler am Trifels, DE
• Markus Ostermayr · Ludwigshafen am Rhein, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 5, 2015
• Grant date: Dec 28, 2021
• Expiry date: Dec 14, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/46
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for operating a linearly concentrating solar power plant (1), in which a heat transfer medium flows through a pipeline loop (47) having at least one receiver, the heat transfer medium having a flow velocity which is such that the flow in the pipeline loop (47) is turbulent, at least part of the heat transfer medium, upon exit from the pipeline loop (47), being extracted and recirculated into the pipeline loop (47). Furthermore, the invention relates to a linearly concentrating solar power plant with at least one pipeline loop (47) having at least one receiver in which a heat transfer medium flowing through the pipeline loop (47) is heated by irradiating solar energy, a mixing device (27) being comprised, in which at least part of the heat transfer medium flowing through the pipeline loop (47) is mixed with heat transfer medium to be delivered.