TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimal design of an "Energy Tower" power plant
AU - Omer, Eyal
AU - Guetta, Rami
AU - Ioslovich, Ilya
AU - Gutman, Per Olof
AU - Borshchevsky, Michael
PY - 2008/3
Y1 - 2008/3
N2 - The Energy Tower (ET) is a power plant that uses seawater and solar energy accumulated in hot dry desert air to produce electricity. An optimization algorithm was designed and programmed for the design of an ET that also includes water reservoirs, pipes, and pumps. The algorithm is a variant of the block coordinate descent method, where one subproblem is formulated as a linear programming problem, and a second subproblem usually has an analytic solution. If the analytic solution is nonfeasible, a variant of the quasi-Newton algorithm is used instead. The algorithm was tested with input information from the arid area near Eilat, the Red Sea, Israel.
AB - The Energy Tower (ET) is a power plant that uses seawater and solar energy accumulated in hot dry desert air to produce electricity. An optimization algorithm was designed and programmed for the design of an ET that also includes water reservoirs, pipes, and pumps. The algorithm is a variant of the block coordinate descent method, where one subproblem is formulated as a linear programming problem, and a second subproblem usually has an analytic solution. If the analytic solution is nonfeasible, a variant of the quasi-Newton algorithm is used instead. The algorithm was tested with input information from the arid area near Eilat, the Red Sea, Israel.
KW - Energy management
KW - Optimization methods
KW - Power system modeling
KW - Power system planning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=40849120150&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TEC.2007.905349
DO - 10.1109/TEC.2007.905349
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AN - SCOPUS:40849120150
SN - 0885-8969
VL - 23
SP - 215
EP - 225
JO - IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
JF - IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
IS - 1
ER -