The acausal and object-oriented language Modelica was chosen to develop the overall system-level model of the Cyprus Institute’s Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and Desalination of Sea Water (DSW) proof-of-concept at the Platform for Research, Observation, and Technological Applications in Solar Energy (PROTEAS) facility in Cyprus. This model builds upon the system level and component models that are part of SolarTherm, an open-source Modelica library of concentrating solar thermal components, developed as part of the Australian Solar Thermal Research Initiative (ASTRI). The article describes the practical ad-hoc approaches used in modelling the components of the CSP-DSW in detail, explaining the reasons for their selection, their advantages and limitations. Two experiments conducted at PROTEAS in July 2016 and January 2018 were used to validate the model. Those experiments were simulated using the developed Modelica model. The comparison between the model’s estimates and the test measurements produce a relatively good agreement, particularly in steady state. In addition to presenting the results, the article discusses the lessons learned from this experimental comparison regarding the quality of the model, how to improve it, and what additional tests to perform to fully validate it.
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25 July 2019
SolarPACES 2018: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems
2–5 October 2018
Casablanca, Morocco
Research Article|
July 25 2019
Object oriented modelling of the CSP-DSW facility Free
Darcy R. Corbett;
Darcy R. Corbett
The Cyprus Institute. Athalassa Campus. 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street
, 2121 Aglantzia. Nicosia. Cyprus
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Manuel Blanco;
Manuel Blanco
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The Cyprus Institute. Athalassa Campus. 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street
, 2121 Aglantzia. Nicosia. Cyprus
a)Corresponding author: [email protected]
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Aristides M. Bonanos;
Aristides M. Bonanos
The Cyprus Institute. Athalassa Campus. 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street
, 2121 Aglantzia. Nicosia. Cyprus
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Marios C. Georgiou;
Marios C. Georgiou
The Cyprus Institute. Athalassa Campus. 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street
, 2121 Aglantzia. Nicosia. Cyprus
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Costas N. Papanicolas;
Costas N. Papanicolas
The Cyprus Institute. Athalassa Campus. 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street
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Constantinos Roussos;
Constantinos Roussos
The Cyprus Institute. Athalassa Campus. 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street
, 2121 Aglantzia. Nicosia. Cyprus
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Efstathios Stiliaris;
Efstathios Stiliaris
The Cyprus Institute. Athalassa Campus. 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street
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Konstantinos Stokos;
Konstantinos Stokos
The Cyprus Institute. Athalassa Campus. 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street
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Evgeny Votyakov
Evgeny Votyakov
The Cyprus Institute. Athalassa Campus. 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street
, 2121 Aglantzia. Nicosia. Cyprus
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Darcy R. Corbett
Manuel Blanco
a)
Aristides M. Bonanos
Marios C. Georgiou
Costas N. Papanicolas
Constantinos Roussos
Efstathios Stiliaris
Konstantinos Stokos
Evgeny Votyakov
The Cyprus Institute. Athalassa Campus. 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street
, 2121 Aglantzia. Nicosia. Cyprus
a)Corresponding author: [email protected]
AIP Conf. Proc. 2126, 030016 (2019)
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Darcy R. Corbett, Manuel Blanco, Aristides M. Bonanos, Marios C. Georgiou, Costas N. Papanicolas, Constantinos Roussos, Efstathios Stiliaris, Konstantinos Stokos, Evgeny Votyakov; Object oriented modelling of the CSP-DSW facility. AIP Conf. Proc. 25 July 2019; 2126 (1): 030016. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5117528
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