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Thermo-economic analysis of photovoltaic, central tower receiver and parabolic trough power plants for Herat city in Afghanistan
- Source :
- Renewable Energy. 150:840-853
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- In Afghanistan, more than 60% of the population does not have access to a reliable source of electrical energy. A thermo-economic analysis is conducted to compare the performance of a Photovoltaic (PV), Central Tower Receiver (CTR) plant and a Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) plant with and without storage for the city of Herat, in Afghanistan. The nominal capacity of both plants is 110 MWe. The PTC plant with energy storage has the highest efficiency of about 43% that is approximately 50% more than the PV plant, however, the PV plant has more uniform power production profile. The output power of PTC with energy storage is 25% more than output power of PTC without energy storage and output power of CTR plant is half of PTC plant with energy storage. The Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) is 0.146 $/kWh for CTR plant, 0.063 $/kWh for PV plant, 0.1076 $/kWh for PTC plant with energy storage, 0.104 $/kWh for PTC plant without storage and 0.12 $/kWh for PTC plat without storage and without backup fossil fuel systems. Increase of incentive by 10% leads to decrease of LCOE by about 20% for PTC and 13% for PV and 12% for CTR power plants.
- Subjects :
- education.field_of_study
060102 archaeology
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
020209 energy
Electric potential energy
Population
Photovoltaic system
Fossil fuel
Environmental engineering
06 humanities and the arts
02 engineering and technology
Energy storage
Power (physics)
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Parabolic trough
Environmental science
0601 history and archaeology
education
Cost of electricity by source
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09601481
- Volume :
- 150
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Renewable Energy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........d899742296b5eb59f0d103c774131596