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EPRI ER 652; Report; March 1978.
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This project was the initial activity in a program to develop a solar/electric power plant which utilizes an open cycle gas turbine as the prime mover. Black & Veatch was the prime contractor; Honeywell, Inc. and the Engineering Experiment Station at the Georgia Institute of Technology
A conceptual design for a commercial-scale plant, with a nominal rating of 60 MWe, was prepared. The characteristics of that baseline design, which employs an elevated central receiver surrounded by a field of heliostats, are presented. The turbine is a General Electric MS 7001R, and is located near the top of a 213 M (700 ft) tower. There are four receiver cavities, located at the top of that tower, each facing one quadrant of the heliostat field. That heliostat field contains about seven thousand heliostats, each with a reflecting surface area of 37.2 M2 (400 ft 2). Energy storage, both buffer and long-term, is provided by fossil fuels. The fuel, either oil or gas, is burned in combustors which are in a parallel arrangement with the solar receivers.
This project was the initial activity in a program to develop a solar/electric power plant which utilizes an open cycle gas turbine as the prime mover. Black & Veatch was the prime contractor; Honeywell, Inc. and the Engineering Experiment Station at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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were subcontractors to Black & Veatch.A conceptual design for a commercial-scale plant, with a nominal rating of 60 MWe, was prepared. The characteristics of that baseline design, which employs an elevated central receiver surrounded by a field of heliostats, are presented. The turbine is a General Electric MS 7001R, and is located near the top of a 213 M (700 ft) tower. There are four receiver cavities, located at the top of that tower, each facing one quadrant of the heliostat field. That heliostat field contains about seven thousand heliostats, each with a reflecting surface area of 37.2 M2 (400 ft 2). Energy storage, both buffer and long-term, is provided by fossil fuels. The fuel, either oil or gas, is burned in combustors which are in a parallel arrangement with the solar receivers.
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