Method of operating a solar thermal process heat plant and solar thermal process heat plant
First Claim
1. Method of operating a solar thermal process heat plant, in which a heat carrier medium is heated in a heating section by solar radiation,wherein the heating section comprises a plurality of heating branches, among which the heat carrier medium is distributed, comprising:
- measuring at heating branches a state variable of the heat carrier medium, respectively;
calculating a mean value of measured state variables over heating branches; and
controlling mass flow control valves in the respective heating branches in dependence upon the respective deviation between the measured state variable of the flowing heat carrier medium in the respective heating branch and the calculated mean value.
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Abstract
There is proposed a method of operating a solar thermal process heat plant, in which a heat carrier medium is heated in a heating section by solar radiation, wherein the heating section comprises a plurality of heating branches, among which the heat carrier medium is distributed, comprising measuring at heating branches a state variable of the heat carrier medium, respectively, calculating a mean value of measured state variables over heating branches, and controlling mass flow control valves in the respective heating branches in dependence upon the respective deviation between the measured state variable of the flowing heat carrier medium in the respective heating branch and the calculated mean value.
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1. Method of operating a solar thermal process heat plant, in which a heat carrier medium is heated in a heating section by solar radiation,
wherein the heating section comprises a plurality of heating branches, among which the heat carrier medium is distributed, comprising: -
measuring at heating branches a state variable of the heat carrier medium, respectively; calculating a mean value of measured state variables over heating branches; and controlling mass flow control valves in the respective heating branches in dependence upon the respective deviation between the measured state variable of the flowing heat carrier medium in the respective heating branch and the calculated mean value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. Solar thermal process heat plant, comprising:
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a heating section, in which a heat carrier medium is heatable by solar radiation; wherein the heating section comprises a plurality of heating branches connected in parallel; wherein at the heating branches or a majority of the heating branches a mass flow control valve is disposed, respectively; one or more state variable sensors for measuring a state variable of flowing heat carrier medium associated with the heating branches, respectively; a control device, by means of which the mass flow control valves are controllable; and a mean-value generating device, by means of which a mean value of measured state variables over heating branches is calculable; wherein the control of the mass flow control valve of a respective heating branch is dependent upon the state variable deviation between the respective measured state variable of the heat carrier medium in the respective heating branch and the calculated mean value over the heating branches. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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