ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF SOLAR CHIMNEY POWER PLANTS IN NORTHWEST CHINA

摘要：

Solar chimney power plant (SCPP) with a long life span is a promising large-scale solar thermal utilization technology. This paper performs economic analysis of the conventional solar chimney power plant (CSCPP) and the sloped solar chimney power plant (SSCPP) in Northwest China. Cash flows are influenced by many factors including the investment, the transportation cost, the payback period, the inflation rate and the sale price of solar electricity. The techno-economic analysis and comparison of CSCPP and SSCPP are performed taking Lanzhou City as a case study. The results show that initial investment of SSCPP is much smaller than that of CSCPP; and SSCPP is more cost-effective than CSCPP during the system life span. In addition, the electricity sale price per kWh decreases gradually with the system power increasing largely. The economic evaluation of building SCPPs in Northwest China is of high significance considering the local abundant solar radiation but under-developing economics.

关键词： Conventional solar chimney power plant Sloped solar chimney power plant Solar chimney Economic analysis Northwest China

作者: Fei Cao Liang Zhao Yang Zhang

作者单位: State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University No. 28 West Xianning Road, Xian, Shaanxi Province, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 7th International Green Energy Conference & The 1st DNL Conference on Clean Energy(第七届绿色能源国际会议暨第一届DNL洁净能源会议(IGEC)

会议地点: 大连

会议语种:英文

页码: 84

在线出版日期: 2012-05-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）