Sentences with word «heliostat»

PG&E has decided to scale back the Alpine SunTower farm in California and replace eSolar's field of heliostats with PV panels.

Price ran the numbers for designs for various heliostat field sizes of 350, 400, 450, and 500 MWt, all integrated into a 250 MW gross power cycle, to run for 5 or 6 hours of reliable capacity from 3 or 4 pm to 9 pm during the summer months, and with a 30 - year project life.

However, instead of using fossil fuels or nuclear power to create the steam, BrightSource uses sunlight, reflected by thousands of small mirrors called heliostats onto a boiler filled with water that sits atop a tower.

The key to eSolar's design are the mirrors — known as heliostats in the concentrating — solar power industry.

He found that adding PV on the tower could generate over 10 MW, or 10 % of the total capacity of a 100 MW CSP plant, using the same reflected sunlight off heliostats used to focus «suns» up onto the tower receiver for thermal solar generation.

More than 34,500 assemblies were completed in February - April, bringing the total number of heliostat assemblies completed to date to more than 153,990 or 89 percent.

eSolar's technology makes use of flat mirrors for heliostats to concentrate heat from the sun onto a water tank suspended on a tower.

Prior to commissioning, project electricians wire heliostats together and connect them to the communication and power distribution units (CPDUs).

Heliostat systems operate by reflecting all of the sunlight received by each of the thousands of heliostats at a given solar power plant onto the same flat black surface, causing it to become extremely hot.

Thousands of mirrors, known as heliostats, surround it, catching sunlight and focusing it onto a receiver on top of the tower.

A spokesperson at BrightSource claimed that the new design was «far more land - efficient because we can concentrate more heliostats in a smaller area of land.

Mendoza is responsible for the commercial operations of the Gemasolar Thermosolar Plant (Fuentes de Andalusia, Seville), the world's first power plant with heliostat field technology and a central tower with molten - salt thermal storage.

At Sandia's facility, rows of mirror - like heliostats are aimed at a tall building with a central receiver installed at the top.

He has led research projects in solar heating and cooling, solar industrial process heat, advanced geothermal power cycles, power plant cooling systems, parabolic trough collectors and low - cost heliostats.

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A normal start - up process for any conventional power plant, steam blows are part of the «load ascension» program, which includes focusing an increasing number of heliostats onto the boiler and methodically raising the temperature and pressure of the steam produced.

The Google logo is spelled out in sun - tracking heliostats during a tour of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert near the California - Nevada border.

Parabolic mirrors or heliostats concentrate light (Insolation) onto a focal point.

As a result of the lack of storage, a direct water - to - steam tower CSP plant like Ivanpah must direct heliostat focus off the receiver quite often during the day.

The only facility of its kind in the U. S., the NSTTF includes a 6 MW central receiver test facility with 200 + heliostats (currently being utilized for particle receiver development and testing), a 16 kWth solar furnace, a rotating test platform, a solar simulator with automated sample handling and exposure system, and a molten salt test loop.

One such program involved the near term deployment of a next generation heliostat.

Mirrors called heliostats capture and then direct solar radiation onto a water - filled tank on a tower.

A pillar of its strategy is the software that orchestrates the movement of reflective heliostats (mirrors on a desert floor) to optimize the production of heat in a boiler on top of a tower.

The arrangement of heliostats around a central receiver is also called a solar collector field.

The team achieved an important milestone in the construction of the project on April 11, when the final heliostat was installed in the Unit 1 solar field, in the area nearest the tower.

According to the SOLAR - JET Project Coordinator at Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Dr. Andreas Sizmann, a solar reactor with a 1 square kilometer heliostat field could generate 20,000 litres of kerosene a day.

With all 53,527 heliostats now installed, it improves the team's start - up capabilities.

Once complete, the tower will be 250 metres tall and encircled by 50,000 heliostat solar mirrors.

Molten salt storage has been used with trough CSP systems, but Gemasolar is the first plant to use the thermal - storage system in a central «power tower» and heliostat architecture.

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In total, for all three units, they will be installing about 173,000 pylons and heliostats throughout the solar field.

When construction of the solar field starts in earnest later this year, Bechtel will be deploying heliostats at a rate of one per minute during working hours and completing about 6 acres of the solar field per day.

The concept, developed at the United States Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories would utilize the solar flux created when heliostats are not directly focused on the receiver.

More than 50,000 computer - controlled heliostats or mirrors will track the sun in two axes and reflect sunlight onto a boiler on top of a 240 - meter tower.

Surrounded by 50,600 sun - tracking heliostats over 3.15 square kilometers, the tower will provide 121 MW of concentrating solar power (CSP) at the Ashalim Solar Thermal Station.

Ivanpah's solar field manager discusses the two main phases of heliostat assembly — its uniqueness and simplicity.

Known as PS10 and built by the Spanish company Abengoa Solar, the project produces electricity with 624 large moveable mirrors called heliostats, using these to concentrate the sun's heat to the top of a 115 - metre - high tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located.

This substantially reduces mirror shading and allows more heliostats to be placed per acre.

Employee standing in front of heliostats at BrightSource's solar thermal facility in the Negev Desert of Israel.

Research was key to the low price record of 6 cents for dispatchable solar thermal energy at Port Augusta: SolarReserve According to Kevin Smith, the CEO of California - based SolarReserve; the company that is first to sell CSP at 6 cents / kWh, the record - low CSP price was largely due to their receiver and heliostat research.

It has 2,650 mirrors, known as heliostats, which cover an area of 457 acres (185 hectares).

The problem is that there's no Moore's law for heliostats, boilers, and transmission lines, either.

The array of heliostats will focus sunlight on the tower where molten salt technology will store the energy as heat to be used to produce electricity 24 hours a day via a steam - driven turbine.

They've done it by capturing the sunshine, and bouncing it between buildings with an architectural device called a heliostat.