Steam Turbines

for Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plants

Generation of electrical energy from sun power
shows a great potential in the feld of renewable
resources. Today, two major technologies are avai-
lable, photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar po-
wer (CSP).
CSP plant concept
While PV technology produces electricity directly
from any ambient light, CSP technology uses mir-
rors to concentrate solar radiation into a receiver,
where a transfer medium absorbs the heat and
utilizes it in a heat exchanger to generate steam
for a conventional regenerative water-steam cycle,
which feeds a turbine to generate electricity. Va-
rious alternative CSP technologies (Central Tower,
Parabolic Trough, Linear Fresnel) are available to
produce live steam with different parameters,
from saturated to the highest superheated steam
conditions.
CSP plants with an integrated thermal storage sy-
stem like molten salt allow higher utilization of the
power block, even in absence of sun, and with the
possibility of producing electricity on demand.
Ansaldo Energia solutions
for CSP plants
Ansaldo Energia, with more than a century of ex-
perience in power generation, has supplied about
700 steam turbines worldwide with a total capaci-
ty of nearly 100 GW.
In the 1980s Ansaldo Energia supplied a 1.5 MW
steam turbine for the Eurelios demonstration solar
plant at Adrano (Sicily, Italy).
For CSP plants, Ansaldo Energia can provide not
only the steam turbine-generator set, but the
complete power block, including civil, mechanical,
electrical and automation design engineering and
the supply, installation and commissioning of all
equipment for the water-steam
cycle.
Moreover Ansaldo Energia solar
steam turbines can be used for
Integrated Solar Combined cycles
(ISCC), where a solar feld is fully in-
tegrated in a combined cycle plant
to reduce its emissions.
Steam Turbines
Ansaldo Energia has a com-
prehensive portfolio of 50 Hz and
60 Hz non-reheat and reheat ste-
am turbines up to 250 MW for
CSP plants of different types and
capacities.
Reference CSP plant confguration (Parabolic Trough type)
MT15 Steam Turbine
MT15 Steam Turbine IP/LP rotor
TYPE
Steam
Parameters
(up to)
OUTPUT
[MW]

N
O
N


R
E
H
E
A
T

MT10
140 bar
565C
R
E
H
E
A
T

CT - RH
105 bar
540C/540C
MT15
160 bar
565C/565C
RT30
160 bar
565C/565C
20 40 60 100 80 120 160 140 180 220 200 240 260 280 300
The turbines are based on the same, proven de-
sign used for combined cycle applications, adap-
ted for both the introduction of the regenerative
steam cycle and the specifc operational fexibility
requirements of CSP plants.
Steam Turbines Main features
High effciency 3D reaction blading
(impulse on small ST)
Applicable to reheat and non-reheat cycles
Full arc and partial arc admission for the best
effciency over a wide steam fow range
Applicable to air and water-cooled condensers
Designed for daily rapid start-up
and shut-down times
Axial and side exhaust arrangement to minimize
civil works
Compact direct drive steam turbine-generator
set
Material selection and construction
for different CSP technologies
Generators
For CSP plants, Ansaldo Energia offers air-coo-
led generators of modular and compact design,
class F insulation system, with a range of appli-
cation up to 400 MVA.
Ansaldo Energia Steam Turbines for
CSP plants - Models and confgurations
16152 Genova - Via N. Lorenzi, 8 - Italy
Tel: +39 010 6551 - Fax: +39 010 655 3411
E-mail: ansaldoenergia@aen.ansaldo.it
ansaldoenergia.com
Ansaldo Energia Steam Turbines
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