The technological progress carried out in the development of high-temperature materials has led to the design of new concentrated solar power plants, like Dish-Micro Gas Turbines (Dish-MGTs). This study proposes a novel cavity receiver for small-scale Dish-MGT plants with a phase-change material storage system integrated inside the receiver container. Such a storage system provides a proper thermal inertia to the component, to level the effects of short-term solar radiation fluctuations which can reduce plant performance and, in the worst cases, damage seriously the MGT. In the paper, results related to CFD steady-state and transient (charge and discharge storage phases) analyses are presented and discussed.
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Giovannelli, A., & Bashir, M. A. (2017). Development of a solar cavity receiver with a short-term storage system. In Energy Procedia (Vol. 136, pp. 258–263). Elsevier Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.10.279
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