CSP Plant Components & Equipment
Standard Requirements
Concentrated Solar Plants require some standard power plant equipment to function. A steam boiler and 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 power energy plants, CSP plants do not just burn raw materials, which is what creates all of the greenhouse gas 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 400C 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 follow, capture and store this energy and release it as heat when needed.
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Diagram provided by www.energy.gov |
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Parabolic trough reflectors for concentrated solar power plants
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Component Cost Reduction
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plants that produce electricity have been in production for the last 25+ years. The main cost restriction at present is that the specific components on the CSP side of the plants, which has not been mass produced but specifically ordered as plants are constructed. Producing the CSP components on a larger scale will greatly reduce the cost of CSP plant construction and make investment and CSP energy production far more viable.
Atlantis CSP under the company Solar Distribution Ltd will be producing the most efficient and cost effective components that can be used in the majority of planned CSP power plants constructions and also for repairs and upgrades to existing CSP plants. This will allow a mix of companies and organisations that are already building or planning new plants, to purchase components at a far better per unit rate. This will in turn attract more investment and allow CSP plants to begin generating profits from their production far sooner.
In addition creating cost effective access to heat storage, power conversion and desalination equipment, which can extend the abilities of standard CSP plant, will allow for more diversified production capabilities of fresh water, hydrogen and 24hr electricity generation.
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