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    To maintain the thermal oil in a solar power plant above its minimum operational temperature of 50°C, an auxiliary heating system burns natural gas during the night to avoid freezing. For one model year at the Jinta plant, thermal losses during the night accounted for 3.68% of the net thermal energy from the solar field, while thermal losses during daylight accounted for 15.1%. Burning 931,200 kg of natural gas at a cost of $158,909 was needed to produce the 9,312 MWh of heat required to offset nighttime thermal losses.

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    To maintain the thermal oil in a solar power plant above its minimum operational temperature of 50°C, an auxiliary heating system burns natural gas during the night to avoid freezing. For one model year at the Jinta plant, thermal losses during the night accounted for 3.68% of the net thermal energy from the solar field, while thermal losses during daylight accounted for 15.1%. Burning 931,200 kg of natural gas at a cost of $158,909 was needed to produce the 9,312 MWh of heat required to offset nighttime thermal losses.

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    To maintain the thermal oil in a solar power plant above its minimum operational temperature of 50°C, an auxiliary heating system burns natural gas during the night to avoid freezing. For one model year at the Jinta plant, thermal losses during the night accounted for 3.68% of the net thermal energy from the solar field, while thermal losses during daylight accounted for 15.1%. Burning 931,200 kg of natural gas at a cost of $158,909 was needed to produce the 9,312 MWh of heat required to offset nighttime thermal losses.

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    92 LOOPS THERMAL SOLAR POWER PLANT: THERMAL LOSSES AT DURING NIGHT To avoid prevent freezing the thermal oil

    have has to be always above a minimum temperature. The Therminol VP1 freezes at 12 C1, and the minimum operational temperature is taken atin common practice fixed at 50C. To maintain keep the thermal oil above 50C an auxiliary heating system is used. This system usually burns natural gas.

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    For the plant at Jinta, for one model year the following thermal losses and auxiliary fuel consumptions are attained for one model year:

    Thermal losses: Net Thermal Energy From Solar Field MWh % 253,148 Thermal losses during the night 9,312 3.68% Thermal losses during daylight 38,238 15.10% Total thermal losses

    47,550 18.78%

    Gas consumption: LHV (kJ/kg) Heat produced (MWh) 9,312 Gas burnt (MMBTU) 2 35,313 Gas burnt (kg)3 931,200 Gas costs ($)4 158,909

    Comment [A1]: Es redundante

    40,000

    Comment [A2]: Yo aplicara el 90 % de rendimiento en este valor

    1 2

    http://www.therminol.com/pages/products/vp-1.asp With an efficiency of 90% for the gas burner. 3 With efficiency of 90% for the gas burner. 4 The natural gas price is taken at 5$/MMBTU

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