Abstract Kuwait is planning to develop a solar project using a 60 MWe parabolic trough collector in Al- Abdaliya. This will be part of a 280 MWe Integrated Solar Combined Cycle (ISCC) System, which will be the first of its kind and size in Kuwait. The objective of this paper is to develop a mathematical model of a typical ISCC system using Engineering Equations Solver (EES), to evaluate the performance of such commercial ISCC power plants. A sensitivity analysis has been carried out to investigate the effect of selected parameters on the performance of the planned ISCC power plant. Results show that the efficiency of Abdaliya ISCC power plant could reach more than 66% which is 20–100% higher than that of the current conventional power plants in Kuwait. The plant output power is also a strong function of solar heat input, it could reach 290 MWe at solar heat input of 75 GJ/s. The annual fuel saving and emissions reduction are more pronounced in case of adding thermal energy storage than that of increasing its solar fraction from 0.2 to 0.3. The expected annual benefits could support the decision-makers to accelerate the adoption of ISCC power plants in Kuwait.

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Al-Abdaliya 综合太阳能联合循环发电厂：科威特案例研究，第一部分

摘要 科威特计划在 Al-Abdaliya 开发一个使用 60 MWe 抛物线槽式集热器的太阳能项目。这将是 280 MWe 集成太阳能联合循环 (ISCC) 系统的一部分，这将是科威特第一个此类和规模的系统。本文的目的是使用工程方程求解器 (EES) 开发典型 ISCC 系统的数学模型，以评估此类商业 ISCC 发电厂的性能。进行了敏感性分析，以研究选定参数对计划中的 ISCC 发电厂性能的影响。结果表明，Abdaliya ISCC电厂的效率可达66%以上，比科威特现有的常规电厂高20-100%。植物输出功率也是太阳能热输入的强函数，它可以在 75 GJ/s 的太阳能热输入下达到 290 MWe。与太阳能占比从0.2提高到0.3相比，增加热能存储每年的节油减排效果更显着。预期的年度收益可以支持决策者加快在科威特采用 ISCC 发电厂。