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Carbon dioxide as working fluid for medium and high-temperature concentrated solar thermal systems

  • Received: 17 January 2014 Accepted: 06 March 2014 Published: 20 March 2014
  • This paper explores the benefits and drawbacks of using carbon dioxide in solar thermal systems at medium and high operating temperatures. For medium temperatures, application of CO2 in non-imaging-optics based compound parabolic concentrators (CPC) combined with evacuated-tube collectors is studied. These collectors have been shown to obtain efficiencies higher than 40% operating at around 200℃ without the need of tracking. Validated numerical models of external compound parabolic concentrators (XCPCs) are used to simulate their performance using CO2 as working fluid. For higher temperatures, a mathematical model is implemented to analyze the operating performance of a parabolic trough solar collector (PTC) using CO2 at temperatures between 100℃ and 600℃.

    Citation: Duong Van, Diaz Gerardo. Carbon dioxide as working fluid for medium and high-temperature concentrated solar thermal systems[J]. AIMS Energy, 2014, 1(1): 99-115. doi: 10.3934/energy.2014.1.99

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  • This paper explores the benefits and drawbacks of using carbon dioxide in solar thermal systems at medium and high operating temperatures. For medium temperatures, application of CO2 in non-imaging-optics based compound parabolic concentrators (CPC) combined with evacuated-tube collectors is studied. These collectors have been shown to obtain efficiencies higher than 40% operating at around 200℃ without the need of tracking. Validated numerical models of external compound parabolic concentrators (XCPCs) are used to simulate their performance using CO2 as working fluid. For higher temperatures, a mathematical model is implemented to analyze the operating performance of a parabolic trough solar collector (PTC) using CO2 at temperatures between 100℃ and 600℃.


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