Parvareh, Forough; Sharma, Manish; Qadir, Abdul; Milani, Dia - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 38 (2014) C, pp. 1029-1044
This paper reviews the utilization of solar thermal energy technology in assisting coal-fired power plants retrofitted with post-combustion carbon capture (PCC). The focus is on compensating the so-called ‘energy penalty’ imposed on the power plant output by the introduction of PCC plant...