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Page 1: National Laboratory Research Institute Panelsco2symposium.com/.../panel-sessions/Turchi_PanelPres.pdfIntegration with Molten Salt TES CSP/sCO 2 Materials: • Characterization of thermal

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National Laboratory & Research Institute Panel

National Renewable Energy Lab

Argonne National Lab

Sandia National Labs

Oak Ridge National Lab

Southwest Research Institute

National Energy Technology Lab

Naval Nuclear Lab

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Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Facility, Nevada

sCO2 Power‐Related  Research at NREL

Craig TurchiSupercritical CO2 Power Cycles Symposium Pittsburgh, PA March 26‐29, 2018

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Vision: a secure and sustainable energy future

Recent Wind and PV power purchase agreement (PPA) prices. (These market PPAs reflect the impact of tax credits and other incentives.)

[Wiser, Bolinger, and Seel 2017]

A single Arizona county receives enough solar energy to power the western U.S. interconnect.*

* Cochise County land with < 3% slope, 30% collector area, 16% solar‐to‐electric conversion efficiency

Renewable power prices continue to decline.

The United States has abundant energy resources of many types…

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Role of CSP: Solar with affordable energy storage

• Multiple hours of energy storage

• Dry cooling• Dispatchable to 

grid demandSolarReserve’s Crescent Dunes plant

But, CSP needs greater efficiency to be cost competitive.

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NREL Activities:sCO2 Cycle Design for CSP

CSP applications require:• Integration with thermal energy 

storage (TES) TEScost ∝ mCp∆T

• Dry cooling• Annual performance simulations 

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NREL Activities:Cycle Cooling Options

Alternative cooling options:• Dry cooling• Integration of thermal desalination 

for cycle cooling + water productionUsable heat for 

thermal desalination

P. Sharan, paper 187

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NREL Activities:Integration with Molten Salt 

TES

CSP/sCO2 Materials:• Characterization of thermal 

energy storage materials• Material compatibility and 

corrosion in molten salts

PurificationPurification Establish procedures to produce purified salts at commercial scale

Chemical OptimizationChemical 

Optimization

CSP CommunityCSP Community

Property DataProperty Data

Handling ProtocolsHandling Protocols

Optimize thermophysical properties for heat transfer and storage efficiency while minimizing corrosion and cost

Validated data in the open literature

For preparation, purification, chemical optimization, and thermophysical properties testing

Balance near‐term CSP industry needs with long‐term objectives to meet SunShot cost targets for Gen3 CSP

High‐temperature Molten Salts

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NREL Activities:System Value

• Determine CSP value to grid • Optimize CSP dispatch

Black generation profile is a profit‐maximizing dispatch schedule versus a simpler block‐dispatch algorithm

Grid price signal

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NREL Activities:Gen3 System Development

CSP Gen3 technologies are all designed to mate with sCO2 power

700°C molten salts

Solid particle receivers and  thermal storage

Direct‐heated  sCO2solar receivers

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