Most renewable energy technologies are now at the commercial level: Their innovation stage is over. Careers now tend to be more in construction, factory production, logistics, or sales. However, in one solar technology, there is still the need for the innovative. In Tower Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), where a solar field of heliostats encircles a solar receiver atop a central tower, innovation is still needed to reduce heliostat costs to enable deployment growth. The heliostats account for about 30% of the cost. “There’s still a need to continue innovation in heliostats,” noted Rebecca Mitchell, a researcher at the Concentrating ...

Los metales líquidos son buenos materiales potenciales de transferencia de calor para los sistemas termoclínicos de almacenamiento de calor (THS) y desempeñarán un papel importante en el sistema de energía solar térmica de próxima generación con una temperatura de funcionamiento más alta. Este artículo presenta un trabajo de investigación comparativo sobre la carga, descarga y rendimiento mecánico de los tanques THS basados ​​en cuatro materiales de metal líquido diferentes, que son plomo (Pb), aleación de plomo-bismuto (PbBi), sodio (Na) y aleación de sodio-potasio. (NaK). Los resultados del análisis indican que, tanto para los procesos de carga como para los de ...

In a solar energy record for round-the-clock power generation, Mongolia’s Wulate 100MW trough CSP project ran continuously for 12 days, generating pure solar energy without batteries; due to the thermal energy storage in CSP. (How Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) works) In Mongolia at a latitude of 41.5 degrees, the Wulate CSP project generated day and night solar for 12 days continuously, breaking records. In a CSP plant, mirrors create heat from sunlight and the heat is stored thermally and runs a thermal power plant Wulate began operation on January 8, 2022. The 100 MW plant generated 300,000 ...

This paper reports on the development of a hierarchical control strategy for a multi-generation solar plant. The plant includes a linear Fresnel reflector, an organic Rankine cycle, an absorption chiller, a thermal storage tank, circulation pumps, and valves. The hierarchical control strategy consists of three successive layers in addition to a wireless monitoring system. The first layer is a supervisory control layer which is responsible for selecting the appropriate operating mode of the plant depending on the current state, user demand, and weather data. The second layer is concerned with determining the reference temperature for the maximum yield from the ...

On its completion, the project will have the largest thermal storage capacity in the world of 15 hours, allowing for energy availability around the clock. The production capacity of clean energy in Dubai has reached 2,027 megawatts (MW) using photovoltaic solar power (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP). This is about 14 percent of Dubai’s total power production capacity of 14,517 MW. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), made the announcement during his visit to the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, which DEWA is implementing. This is ...