Techno-economic Performance Evaluation of Direct Steam Generation Solar Tower Plants with Thermal Energy Storage Systems Based on High-temperature Concrete and Encapsulated Phase Change Materials

Nowadays, direct steam generation concentrated solar tower plants suffer from the absence of a cost-effective thermal energy storage integration. In this study, the prefeasibility of a combined sen ...

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