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The plants in the case study have been analyzed by using the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics principles. The solar irradiation and load ratio have been considered in the analysis. We conclude that if the solar irradiation was 925 W\/m2 and load ratio of the SAPG plant was 100%, the exergy efficiency would be 44.54% and the energy efficiency of the plant (46.35%). It was found that in the SAPG plant the largest exergy loss was from the boiler, which accounted for about 76.74% of the total loss. When the load ratio of the unit remains at 100%, and the solar irradiation varies from 500 W\/m2 to 1,100 W\/m2, the coal savings would be in the range of 8.6 g\/kWh to 15.8 g\/kWh. If the solar irradiation were kept at  925 W\/m2 while the load ratio of the plant changed from 30% to 100%, the coal savings could be in the range of 11.99 g\/kWh to 13.75 g\/kWh.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e15031014","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,3,11]],"date-time":"2013-03-11T12:14:24Z","timestamp":1363004064000},"page":"1014-1034","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Exergetic and Parametric Study of a Solar Aided Coal-Fired Power Plant"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Rongrong","family":"Zhai","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}]},{"given":"Yong","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}]},{"given":"Yongping","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}]},{"given":"Kaiyu","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}]},{"given":"Eric","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,3,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4336","DOI":"10.1016\/j.energy.2009.05.006","article-title":"Power generation from pulverized coal in China","volume":"35","author":"Yang","year":"2010","journal-title":"Energy"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2881","DOI":"10.1016\/j.apenergy.2009.10.025","article-title":"Solar-aided power generation","volume":"87","author":"Eric","year":"2010","journal-title":"Appl. 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