Publications by Germain Augsburger

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Thermoeconomic optimization of a combined-cycle solar tower power plant

A dynamic model of a pure-solar combined-cycle power plant has been developed in order to allow determination of the thermodynamic and economic performance of the plant for a variety of operating conditions and superstructure layouts. The model was then us ...

2012

Thermo-Economic Optimization of a Tower-Trough Combination Thermal Solar Power Plant

Germain Augsburger, Jorge López Moreno

Current energetic context involving skyrocketing oil prices, population growing rates without precedents and increasing concerns about nuclear energy and climate change issues requires rapid, economically feasible and reliable progress in the field of rene ...

2011

Modelling of the receiver transient flux distribution due to cloud passages on a solar tower thermal power plant

Daniel Favrat, Germain Augsburger

As more and more solar tower thermal power plants are being operated, built or planned, effort is put both on the development and research to bring costs down and increase the plant efficiency. In those plants, the central receiver is one of the key compon ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

From Single- to Multi-Tower Solar Thermal Power Plants: Investigation of the Thermo-Economic Optimum Transition Size

Daniel Favrat, Germain Augsburger

When considering very large single-tower heliostat fields, the attenuation and spillage losses are growing with the distance to the central receiver. Therefore multi-tower configurations are modelled and investigated to find the thermo-economic optimal siz ...

2012

Thermo-economic optimisation of large solar tower power plants

Germain Augsburger

Given the growing number of solar tower power plants in operation, under construction and under planning, the assessment and the optimisation of their performance are required both at the energy level and the economic level. In other words, the same way as ...

EPFL2013

Evaluation of a combined-cycle setup for Solar Tower Power Plants

Daniel Favrat, Germain Augsburger

Simulation of a pure-solar combined-cycle solar thermal power was performed in order to analyse the thermodynamic and economic performance. An open volumetric receiver and packed-bed storage concept was considered. For a 15 MWe power plant, an exergetic ef ...

2009

Thermo-economic Optimisation of the Heliostat Field of Solar Tower Thermal Power Plants

Daniel Favrat, Germain Augsburger

A method of optimising the thermodynamic and economic performance of heliostat field within a solar tower thermal power plant has been developed. The method includes the generation of a heliostat field given a set of design variables, the assessment of its ...

2010

Life Cycle Assessment and Environomic Optimization of Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plants

François Maréchal, Léda Gerber, Germain Augsburger, Aurélie Kuenlin

2013