The Powder2Power (P2P) project aims to demonstrate at the MW scale the operation of a fluidized bed solar receiver coupled with an electricity-driven particle superheater, a crossflow fluidized bed heat exchanger and a Brayton cycle gas turbine. This concept will be tested at the Themis tower facility (Targasonne, France). Within the P2P project, one of the tasks aims to study the design of utility-scale power plants, in particular the heliostat field and the solar receiver. This paper describes the methodology developed to optimize the heliostat field layout, tower height and receiver geometry for a given thermal power. Results for a 50 MWth case are presented.
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