Journal
APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING
Volume 107, Issue -, Pages 1210-1218Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2016.07.084
Keywords
Artificial neural network; Levelized cost of electricity; Optimization; Parabolic trough power plant
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Design and optimization of a solar power plant are very complex and require many calculations, data and time. From this point of view, artificial neural network (ANN) models are desired options to determine techno-economic performances of this kind of plants. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the feed-forward back-propagation learning algorithm with three different variants; Levenberge Marguardt (LM), Scaled Conjugate Gradient (SCG), and Pola-Ribiere Conjugate Gradient (CGP), used in the ANN to find the best approach for prediction and techno-economic optimization of parabolic trough solar thermal power plant (PTSTPP) integrated with fuel backup system and thermal energy storage. The obtained statistical parameters showed that LM algorithm with 38 neurons in a single hidden layer looks as the best ANN model to predict the annual power generation (PG(net)) and levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of the presented PTSTPP. Moreover, the obtained weights from this topology were used in the LCOE analysis for determining the optimum system design. It is therefore available to get a minimum LCOE of 8.88 Cent/kWh from the new optimized plant when the plant characteristics are; 34 degrees C and 850 W/m(2) for both design ambient temperature and solar radiation, 23 m for row spacing, 1.7 for solar multiple, and 2.5 h number of hours for the storage system. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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