Thermophotovoltaic systems for achieving high-solar-fraction hybrid solar-biomass power generation

C. M.Iftekhar Hussain; Aidan Duffy; Brian Norton

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114181

Thermophotovoltaic systems for achieving high-solar-fraction hybrid solar-biomass power generation

C. M.Iftekhar Hussain, Aidan Duffy, Brian Norton

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Medium operating temperature hybrid solar-biomass TPV power plant design requires complex integration of multiple high temperature processes with low band-gap TPV cells. A 0.72 eV band-gap GaSb TPV cell has been used in thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems operating at temperatures above 1400 °C. Low band-gap TPV cells, such as InGaAs (E_g = 0.55 eV) and InAs (E_g = 0.36 eV) could enable a TPV system to operate optimally at temperatures ≈1000 °C. To examine this, two hybrid solar-biomass TPV system configurations are studied using TRNSYS simulation that incorporates a new algorithm for TPV. It is found that in a high solar fraction CSP power plant, a TPV system could recover surplus thermal energy gained from solar energy at mid-days that would otherwise be unused.

Original language	English
Article number	114181
Journal	Applied Energy
Volume	259
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114181
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2020

Keywords

Absorber/Emitter
Hybrid STPV
Spectral control
Thermophotovoltaic

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Thermophotovoltaic systems for achieving high-solar-fraction hybrid solar-biomass power generation

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