Performance assessment of hybrid solar energy and coal-fired power plant based on feed-water preheating

Hybridizing solar energy and coal-fired steam power plant is one of most attractive approaches of cost-efficient solar electricity in the present. By using the concentrated solar heat at around 300 °C to replace the bleed steam of the turbine for preheating feed-water of coal-fired steam cycle, higher solar-to-power efficiency is possibly achieved in that the conversion of solar to power can utilize higher-temperature steam cycle. In this paper,...