Technoeconomic Design of a Micro Gas-turbine for a Solar Dish System

An integrated approach for the design of a custom-tailored hybrid solar MGT with an integrated solar receiver for the use in a small-scale solar dish unit is presented in order to overcome the inherent limitations of adapting a MGT in the desired power range to solar operation. The resulting MGT-dish equipped with the ‘optimal’ MGT shows a nominal conversion efficiency of 29.6%. Then, a thermoeconomic analysis of the entire system is performed to evaluate and compare the economic and environmental performance of the MGT-dish with a Dish-Stirling system. From an economical point of view the MGT-dish outperforms the dish-Stirling with LCoEs as low as 15.3€cts/kWhel compared to 22.4€cts/kWhel.