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Simulation of the Start-Up Procedure of a Parabolic Trough Collector Field with Direct Solar Steam Generation Simulation of the Start-Up Procedure of a Parabolic Trough Collector Field with Direct Solar Steam Generation Tobias Hirsch Markus Eck German Aerospace Center (DLR) Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany tobias.hirsch@dlr.de, markus.eck@dlr.de Abstract shortened by 1 hour a net gain of 7.9 % will be ob- tained. Solar thermal power plants are one of the most inter- This paper presents simulation studies covering the esting options for renewable electricity production. topic of solar field start-up procedures for parabolic For a plant based on parabolic trough collectors, the trough fields with direct steam generation. Especially start-up procedure of the solar field in the morning the two-phase flow conditions inside the absorber has to be well defined in order to start electricity tubes necessitate the analysis with the help of de- production as soon as possible. In this paper, the tailed numerical simulations. Having a simulation Modelica language is used to describe the thermo- tool at hand, different start-up strategies can be hydraulic components of the collector field. A con- tested and evaluated to come to an optimal solution. trol system for the plant start-up is developed based The Modelica language is used for the study since on the Modelica StateGraph