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Steam from the sun - New spongelike structure converts solar energy into steam
Original story at MIT News The structure — a layer of graphite flakes and an underlying carbon foam — is a porous, insulating material structure that floats on water. When sunlight hits the structure’s surface, it creates a hotspot in the graphite, drawing water up through the material’s pores, where it evaporates as steam. The brighter the light, the more steam is ...
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AREVA Solar Part of Consortium Selected by Australian Government for New 250 MW Solar Flagships Project
The Australian Government has selected the AREVA Solar, CS Energy and Wind Prospect CWP consortium's "Solar Dawn" as the preferred solar thermal power project in Round 1 of the Australian Government's Solar Flagships Program. Solar Dawn is a proposed 250 megawatt solar thermal gas hybrid power plant and will be the largest plant of its kind in the world when completed. The Australian ...
By AREVA
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JFE Engineering and Solar Power Group sign technology licensing agreement for linear fresnel solar thermal power
JFE Engineering Corporation (JFEE) and Solar Power Group (SPG) have concluded a technology licensing agreement under which JFEE will commercialize SPG’s Fresnel technology having exclusive sales rights in Southeast Asia and Oceania. In addition, JFEE will also market Fresnel based solar thermal power plants in other countries around the world. JFE Engineering Corporation (JFEE) and Solar ...
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Solar power plant Andasol 3 produces environment-friendly energy for the first time
The solar thermal power plant Andasol 3 in Andalusia, southern Spain, for the first time produced solar generated steam during a test phase in which the rows of parabolic mirrors were aligned with the sun. This test is another successful step on the way to completing and commissioning the solar power plant which will generate 50 megawatts. Andasol 3 is due to begin commercial operation in ...
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Solar Energy: TÜV Rheinland Involved in Construction of World’s Largest Fresnel Solar Power Plant as an Independent Certifier
TÜV Rheinland accompanied the construction of the world’s largest solar thermal power plant, Puerto Errado 2 in Spain, as a neutral certifier. On behalf of several companies involved in the project, the testing service provider’s specialists examined all phases of construction of the power plant as an independent certifier and accompanied the relevant quality inspections. ...
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CSP Today Awards 2010 single out the industry’s finest
Abengoa, ACS Cobra, SkyFuel, Cargo Power & Infrastructure, Foster Wheeler, Abener Teyma, and Schubert & Salzer take the spotlight at CSP Today’s International Industry Awards 2010 in Seville, Spain. By Rikki Stancich CSP Today has been on a mission to flush out the CSP industry leaders of 2010. The winners of the CSP Today International Awards 2010 were announced during this ...
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BrightSource Launches Next Generation Solar Field Technologies
BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading concentrating solar power technology (CSP) company today announced advanced solar field technologies currently being deployed at the 121 megawatt (MW) Ashalim Solar Thermal Power Station located in Israel’s Negev Desert. The fourth generation of BrightSource’s solar field technologies features improvements to the heliostats, solar field ...
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Novatec Solar’s Fresnel collector generates superheated steam above 500°C
Novatec Solar’s Fresnel collector has successfully generated superheated steam at temperatures above 500°C at its 1.4 megawatt (MW) demonstration plant in Murcia, Spain, by implementing an innovative receiver design. “With this technical achievement, Novatec Solar takes a leading position in the development of high temperature CSP technology”, says Martin Selig, Head of ...
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Focus on concentrated solar power: E.ON promotes research into heat storage systems
The new call for applications under E.ON’s international research initiative focuses on a highly topical energy trend: 'Heat storage for concentrated solar power'. This topic is the third key subject area on which E.ON is inviting universities and institutes worldwide to submit proposals for innovative research projects. Concentrated solar power (CSP) bundles the sun’s rays so that electricity ...
By E.ON AG
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Opening markets for CSP – the industrial heat application
Heavy industry can be a viable secondary market today for CSP producers, but questions remain on whether start-up costs are justifiable for industrial users, and how reliable CSP can be for processes that can't pace production by the sun. Solar thermal heat implies steam, and industries that need steam include refining, food processing, wood-working, desalination and chemicals, among others. ...
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Building one of the worlds largest Solar Plant
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), the largest producer of oil and gas in Oman, and GlassPoint Solar, the leader in solar enhanced oil recovery (EOR), today announced plans to build one of the world’s largest solar plants.1 Miraah (meaning mirror in Arabic) will be a 1,021 megawatt solar thermal facility in South Oman, harnessing the sun’s rays to produce steam. The steam will be used ...
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