Feasibility Study of Linear Fresnel Solar Thermal Power Plant in Algeria

Abstract

Clean renewable electric power technologies are important in human life, a great number of thermal solar power plants with different configurations are being considered for deployment all over the world. In this work, we propose a feasibility study of concentrated solar power plant to be set up in different sites of Algeria. It is essential that the plant design will be optimized to each specific location. Among the CSP technologies, we will emphasize on the Fresnel solar power plants at different areas of Algerian Sahara. These areas have been chosen for comparison by shifting the plant to different locations; namely Hassi R'mel, Tamanrasset, Beni-Abbes, and El Oued. Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI), solar field surface, block number, the block surface, block panels' number, absorber surface, and finally thermal power losses in the absorber are the key parameters for optimization and performance evaluation. The calculation results have been depicted for each site. Indeed, the calculation of performance varies from one site to another with DNI mean values of 788.4, 698.7, 671.7, and 636 W/m 2 , respectively for Tamanrasset, Beni-Abbes, El Oued and Hassi R'mel sites. The surface of solar field, block number, absorber surface and power loss have been also evaluated for the same sites.