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    Standardising CSP Plant Equipment



    Component Requirements

    There are a lot of great innovations for concentrated solar power production, manufactured by some of the largest international companies in the industry like Siemens and Acciona. This gives great options to a variety of CSP plant designs but also increases the cost of manufacture and plant production due to the bespoke nature of each construction.

    Solar Distribution will bring together a common system and goal in Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant production, to reduce prices and increase productivity of these plants. Selecting the most durable, efficient and cost productive parts from a number of manufacturers, Solar Distribution will be able to mass produce the standard CSP plant equipment that can be utilised in a number of power plant designs around the world.

    This will greatly reduce the overall costs of each new plant development and allow current CSP power plants to update their systems and production to increase productivity.
     

    Parabolic trough reflectors for concentrated solar power plants



         


    Diagram provided by www.energy.gov
      Thermal Plant Standardised Equipment

    All thermal power plants, including CSP Plants, require some standard power plant equipment to function. A steam boiler and a condenser boiler to turn water into high pressured steam, a steam turbine to turn an electrical generator, creating the electricity and then a cooling tower to condense the steam back in to water.

    However unlike coal, gas or other fire powered thermal energy plants, CSP plants do not burn raw materials, which is what creates all of the greenhouse gases and harmful partials that are released in to the air. Instead CSP plants collect their ‘fuel’ right at the plant location, capturing and intensifying the suns natural heat and using that to create the 400°C heat to ‘fire’ the power station.

    So instead of having trucks delivering tons of coal you have rows of reflective mirrors catching the sun's rays as they fall to Earth. A simple concept, but of course still requiring technology and equipment to efficiently capture and store this energy and release it when needed.

    By supplying cost effective equipment to improve heat storage, power conversion and desalination, which can extend the abilities of standard CSP plants, this will also allow CSP plants to operate 24hrs a day generating power and water. Which will make them a logical replacement for current fossil fuel thermal power plants.