TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimal technology for a hybrid biomass/solar system for electricity generation and desalination in Brazil
AU - Khosravi, A.
AU - Santasalo-Aarnio, A.
AU - Syri, S.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the Academy of Finland through Grant 326346 for the Energy Storage and Post-Doctoral funding of Aalto University , School of Engineering, for the financial support of the project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/11/1
Y1 - 2021/11/1
N2 - In this study, an energy and economic analysis of a novel hybrid system based on a biomass/solar system equipped with a multi-effect desalination unit is carried out. Part of the steam was directed into a heat exchanger to supply the required energy for the multi-effect desalination unit. The capacity of the system was 100 MWe. The proposed system is compared with a photovoltaic power plant, a solar dish/Stirling power plant, a biomass power plant, and a linear Fresnel Reflector solar power plant. The results demonstrate that a solar thermal collector can be considered a promising solution to prevail the problem of the increasing boiler temperature. It reduces the amount of fuel consumption throughout the year, resulting in reducing the levelized cost of energy. Increasing the solar irradiance augments the energy efficiency gains of a hybrid system. The comparison of the power plants showed that the proposed hybrid system had the minimum levelized cost of energy by 7.865 cents of dollar/kWh but has only slightly higher capital investment cost. Additionally, of the solar power plants studied, a photovoltaic system is more efficient for the study region, Natal-RN Brazil, by a levelized cost of energy of 10.45 cents of dollar/kWh.
AB - In this study, an energy and economic analysis of a novel hybrid system based on a biomass/solar system equipped with a multi-effect desalination unit is carried out. Part of the steam was directed into a heat exchanger to supply the required energy for the multi-effect desalination unit. The capacity of the system was 100 MWe. The proposed system is compared with a photovoltaic power plant, a solar dish/Stirling power plant, a biomass power plant, and a linear Fresnel Reflector solar power plant. The results demonstrate that a solar thermal collector can be considered a promising solution to prevail the problem of the increasing boiler temperature. It reduces the amount of fuel consumption throughout the year, resulting in reducing the levelized cost of energy. Increasing the solar irradiance augments the energy efficiency gains of a hybrid system. The comparison of the power plants showed that the proposed hybrid system had the minimum levelized cost of energy by 7.865 cents of dollar/kWh but has only slightly higher capital investment cost. Additionally, of the solar power plants studied, a photovoltaic system is more efficient for the study region, Natal-RN Brazil, by a levelized cost of energy of 10.45 cents of dollar/kWh.
KW - Biomass power plant
KW - Desalination unit
KW - Linear fresnel reflector
KW - Photovoltaic system
KW - Solar dish/stirling
KW - Waste heat recovery
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U2 - 10.1016/j.energy.2021.121309
DO - 10.1016/j.energy.2021.121309
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85108870814
SN - 0360-5442
VL - 234
JO - Energy
JF - Energy
M1 - 121309
ER -
