Case study of 5 MW Parabolic Trough Power Plant in Palestine

Abstract

Electrical power generation can be quite a challenge, but it’s essential, there are many ways to produce power and some of them have side effects on the environment (non-clean power plant) such as coal thermal plants, in this project, the power plant will be using renewable sources (clean power plant) for generating power, concentrated solar power system is selected for this project, in particular parabolic trough collectors thermal plant. The system is planned to be located in Palestine, and it’s expected to be able to generate (2-3) % of Hebron’s total power consumption and a case study of the system will be analyzed, with different scenarios, such as open loop system without speed drop control, closed loop, variable and constant load effect on the system and its frequency, and maintaining a constant frequency for a safe operation of the grid. The major challenge in designing power plants, is the variation of sciences used in it, Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, and more types of engineering are involved in this, thus there is a big challenge in connecting everything together to finally be able to produce power safely. The system is modeled in Matlab Simulink, and all the scenarios are studied within the software alongside the speed drop control (governor) system, a speed control system is designed and tested using the Matlab Simulink software