Molten Salt Electric Experiment Steam Generator Subsystem. Final Report

摘要

The Molten Salt Electric Experiment (MSEE) is a full-system demonstration of a solar central receiver power generation plant which uses molten nitrate salt as the primary heat transfer fluid and also as the thermal storage medium. The MSEE receiver has a thermal capacity of 5 MWt, and the turbine-generator is rated at 750 kWe. The system has a two-tank thermal storage subsystem with a capacity of 6 MW-hours, and a steam generator rated at 3.1 MWt. The MSEE began in mid-1982, and testing was completed in July 1985 at the Central Receiver Test Facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Babcock and Wilcox was awarded the contract to supply a steam generator for the MSEE capable of producing superheated steam using molten salt as a heat source. This report covers the design, fabrication, installation, and testing of the Steam Generation Subsystem beginning in September 1982 and ending in June 1984. (ERA citation 11:033903)