TOPCSP

In the TOPCSP project, the overall research objective is to improve the design of the different systems of a CSP plant to increase its cost-competitiveness, reliability, environmental profile, and operational safety through:
1. Improving molten salt-based technology which has the lowest costs and higher capacity factors and the direct steam generation plants that are suitable at a lower scale,
2. Developing a high-temperature liquid receiver and the sCO₂ power block of the next generation of CSP plants and proposing new systems to contribute to enhancing the flexibility of CSP plants using molten salt reservoirs and solar fuels, and
3. Developing computational tools to improve the analysis and design of the systems considered.