Browsing Articles publicats (Informàtica i Enginyeria Industrial) by Author "Prieto, Cristina"
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A framework for sustainable evaluation of thermal energy storage in circular economy
Abokersh, Mohamed Hany; Norouzi, Masoud; Boer, Dieter; Cabeza, Luisa F.; Gasa, Gemma; Prieto, Cristina; Jiménez, Laureano; Vallès Rasquera, J. Manel (Elsevier, 2021)The circular economy can be promoted as a solution to support the sustainability market position of renewable energy systems. To design a circular and sustainable system, a structured approach is needed. The present study ... -
Advanced Concrete Steam Accumulation Tanks for Energy Storage for Solar Thermal Electricity
Prieto, Cristina; Pérez Osorio, David; Gonzalez-Roubaud, Edouard; Fereres, Sonia; Cabeza, Luisa F. (MDPI, 2021)Steam accumulation is one of the most effective ways of thermal energy storage (TES) for the solar thermal energy (STE) industry. However, the steam accumulator concept is penalized by a bad relationship between the volume ... -
Advances in thermal energy storage for renewable energies integration in the energy system
Zsembinszki, Gabriel; Prieto, Cristina; Ziskind, Gennady; Cabeza, Luisa F. (Elsevier, 2021)Thermal energy storage (TES) is a key technology to reach a real renewable sources integration in the energy system, helping in the energy transition that the world is facing nowadays. Advances in TES in all areas related ... -
Bibliometric map on corrosion in concentrating solar power plants
Cabeza, Luisa F.; Borri, Emiliano; Prieto, Cristina (MDPI, 2022)Concentrating solar power (CSP), also known as solar thermal electricity (STE), is increasing its deployment worldwide. One of the potential ways to decrease costs in CSP plants is the improvement of corrosion resistance ... -
Corrosion testing device for in-situ corrosion characterization in operational molten salts storage tanks: A516 Gr70 carbon steel performance under molten salts exposure
Ruiz-Cabañas, F. Javier; Prieto, Cristina; Osuna, Rafael; Madina, Virginia; Fernández Renna, Ana Inés; Cabeza, Luisa F. (Elsevier, 2016-06-01)Concentrated solar power (CSP) generation is becoming a very important player within the renewable energy sector thanks to increased introduction of these facilities into the conventional electricity market. CSP plants ... -
Direct steam generation in parabolic trough collectors
Alguacil, M.; Prieto, Cristina; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Alfonso; Lohr, Jenny (Elsevier, 2014-03-03)Existing commercial parabolic trough power plants use thermal oil as a heat transfer fluid, with working temperatures in the region of 400ºC. In order to achieve more efficient generating systems, a second generation of ... -
Effects of sodium nitrate concentration on thermophysical properties of solar salts and on the thermal energy storage cost
Durth, Melanie; Prieto, Cristina; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Alfonso; Patiño-Rodríguez, David; Cabeza, Luisa F. (Elsevier, 2019)Thermal energy storage (TES) systems are key components of concentrating solar power plants in order to offer energy dispatchability to adapt the electricity power production to the curve demand. Nitrate molten salts are ... -
Experimental analysis of charging and discharging processes, with parallel and counter flow arrangements, in a molten salts high temperature pilot plant scale setup
Peiró Bell-lloch, Gerard; Gasia, Jaume; Miró, Laia; Prieto, Cristina; Cabeza, Luisa F. (Elsevier, 2016)Despite the fact that there are some commercial concentrated solar power plants worldwide, there is currently a lack of experimental reports about the operational characteristics of this type of plants. Therefore, a two-tank ... -
Feasibility Study of Freeze Recovery Options in Parabolic Trough Collector Plants Working with Molten Salt as Heat Transfer Fluid
Prieto, Cristina; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Alfonso; Ruiz-Cabañas, F. Javier; Cabeza, Luisa F. (MDPI, 2019)Parabolic trough collector (PTC) technology is currently the most mature solar technology, which has led to the accumulation of relevant operational experience. The overall performance and efficiency of these plants depends ... -
Improvement of Phase Change Materials (PCM) Used for Solar Process Heat Applications
Prieto, Cristina; López-Román, Antón; Martínez, Noelia; Morera Prat, Josep M.; Cabeza, Luisa F. (MDPI, 2021)The high intermittency of solar energy is still a challenge yet to be overcome. The use of thermal storage has proven to be a good option, with phase change materials (PCM) as very promising candidates. Nevertheless, PCM ... -
Influence of the heat transfer fluid in a CSP plant molten salts charging process
Peiró Bell-lloch, Gerard; Gasia, Jaume; Miró, Laia; Prieto, Cristina; Cabeza, Luisa F. (Elsevier, 2017)The selection of a proper heat transfer fluid (HTF) is a key factor to increase the efficiency of concentrated solar power plants and therefore, to reduce their internal associated CAPEX (capital expenditures of developing ... -
Key Challenges for High Temperature Thermal Energy Storage in Concrete—First Steps towards a Novel Storage Design
Cabeza, Luisa F.; Vérez, David; Zsembinszki, Gabriel; Borri, Emiliano; Prieto, Cristina (MDPI, 2022)Thermal energy storage (TES) allows the existing mismatch between supply and demand in energy systems to be overcome. Considering temperatures above 150 C, there are major potential benefits for applications, such as ... -
Key performance indicators in thermal energy storage: survey and assessment
Cabeza, Luisa F.; Galindo, Esther; Prieto, Cristina; Barreneche Güerisoli, Camila; Fernández Renna, Ana Inés (Elsevier, 2015)Thermal energy storage (TES) is recognised as a key technology for further deployment of renewable energy and to increase energy efficiency in our systems. Several technology roadmaps include this technology in their ... -
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of a Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Plant in Tower Configuration with and Without Thermal Energy Storage (TES)
Gasa, Gemma; López-Román, Antón; Prieto, Cristina; Cabeza, Luisa F. (MDPI, 2021)Despite the big deployment of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants, their environmental evaluation is still a pending issue. In this paper, a detailed life cycle assessment (LCA) of a CSP tower plant with molten salts ... -
Life cycle assessment (LCA) of a concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in tower configuration with different storage capacity in molten salts
Gasa, Gemma; Prieto, Cristina; López-Román, Antón; Cabeza, Luisa F. (Elsevier, 2022)Although studies on the levelized cost of energy (LCoE) of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants were published in recent years, these studies were not related to the environmental impact generated. To fill this literature ... -
Materials selection for thermal energy storage systems in parabolic trough collector solar facilities using high chloride content nitrate salts
Ruiz-Cabañas, F. Javier; Prieto, Cristina; Madina, Virginia; Fernández Renna, Ana Inés; Cabeza, Luisa F. (Elservier, 2017)The increasing role of concentrated solar power (CSP) within the renewable energy portfolio is attributed to the possibility of integrating thermal energy storage (TES) systems. Then, CSP technology has become one of the ... -
Materials selection of steam-phase change material (PCM) heat exchanger for thermal energy storage systems in direct steam generation facilities
Ruiz-Cabañas, F. Javier; Jové, Aleix; Prieto, Cristina; Madina, Virginia; Fernández Renna, Ana Inés; Cabeza, Luisa F. (Elsevier, 2017)Phase change materials (PCM) is one of the most interesting solutions to be used in thermal energy storage (TES) systems for direct steam generation (DSG) thermosolar facilities. Properties such as high energy density and ... -
Molten salt facilities, lessons learnt at pilot plant scale to guarantee commercial plants; heat losses evaluation and correction
Prieto, Cristina; Osuna, Rafael; Fernández Renna, Ana Inés; Cabeza, Luisa F. (Elsevier, 2016-08)This paper presents the importance of the thermal losses in the performance evaluation of thermal storage systems. In order to reinforce this statement, an evaluation of a pilot plant whose size is sufficiently representative ... -
New phase change material storage concept including metal wool as heat transfer enhancement method for solar heat use in industry
Prieto, Cristina; Rubio, Carlos; Cabeza, Luisa F. (Elsevier, 2021)Thermal energy storage is recognized as a key technology in the energy transition the world is facing today. But the main technical barrier this technology has to achieve wider deployment the low thermal conductivity of ... -
Performance comparison of a group of thermal conductivity enhancement methodology in phase change material for thermal storage application
Abujas, Carlos R.; Jové, Aleix; Prieto, Cristina; Gallas, Manuel; Cabeza, Luisa F. (Elsevier, 2016)Phase change materials (PCM) are able to store thermal energy when becoming liquids and to release it when freezing. Recently the use of PCM materials for thermal energy storage (TES) at high temperature for Concentrated ...