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The document summarizes a solar power tower, which generates electricity from sunlight by using many sun-tracking mirrors called heliostats to reflect sunlight onto a heat exchanger mounted on a central tower. The heat exchanger collects the sun's heat in a fluid that is used to generate steam to power a steam turbine and produce electricity. Solar power towers can produce electricity on a large utility scale of 30-400 MW as a clean and competitive alternative to coal and gas-based power generation.
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Solar power towers use an array of mirrors called heliostats to focus sunlight onto a central receiver at the top of a tower. This concentrated sunlight is used to heat a fluid or molten salt that can store the thermal energy. There are two main types of solar towers - steam based systems that use water as the heat transfer fluid, and molten salt based systems that use a molten salt mixture. Solar towers have the advantages of being renewable, environmentally friendly sources of energy generation, but they also require large amounts of land and water and have the disadvantage of only producing energy when the sun is shining.
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Solar towers generate electricity from sunlight by using an array of mirrors called heliostats to concentrate solar radiation onto a receiver at the top of a tower. There are two main types of solar towers: steam-based systems that use water as a heat transfer medium, and molten salt-based systems that use a molten salt mixture. Molten salt systems can store heat for hours after sunset, allowing electricity generation to continue. India is well-suited for solar towers due to its location along the Tropic of Cancer and availability of land, sunlight, and raw materials. A proposed molten salt solar tower in Gujarat could harness the region's abundant solar energy.
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The document discusses solar power towers, which use an array of flat, movable mirrors called heliostats to focus sunlight on a central collector tower. The concentrated sunlight heats a fluid in the tower that is used to generate steam and power a turbine, producing electricity. Several early solar power tower projects from the 1980s-1990s are described that varied in size from 0.5-10 MW and used different heat transfer fluids and storage media. The technology has advantages of being easy to operate, environmentally friendly, and having falling costs as renewable energy.
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The solar power tower (also known as 'Central Tower' power plants or 'Heliostat' power
plants or power towers) is a type of solar furnace using a tower to receive the focused sunlight. It uses
an array of flat, moveable mirrors (called heliostats) to focus the sun's rays upon a collector tower (the
target). The high energy at this point of concentrated sunlight is transferred to a substance that can store
the heat for later use. The more recent heat transfer material that has been successfully demonstrated is
liquid sodium. Sodium is a metal with a high heat capacity, allowing that energy to be stored and drawn
off throughout the evening. That energy can, in turn, be used to boil water for use in steam turbines.
Water had originally been used as a heat transfer medium in earlier power tower versions (where the
resultant steam was used to power a turbine). This system did not allow for power generation during the
evening
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This document discusses solar power towers. It provides background on solar power towers, including their history from 1981-1996. It describes the structure of solar power towers and how they work. Solar power towers use an array of mirrors to reflect sunlight onto a receiver at the top of a tower, where a heat transfer fluid is heated and used to drive a conventional power generator. Benefits include providing dispatchable base load electricity production and the ability to incorporate energy storage.
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The document discusses solar tower technology for solar thermal power generation. It describes how solar towers work using a central receiver system with a tower and heliostat field. The heliostats reflect sunlight onto the receiver at the top of the tower to heat a fluid. This thermal energy is then used to generate electricity. Key components discussed include the heliostat field design and technology, receiver types, heat transfer fluids, thermal energy storage, and operational commercial solar tower plants around the world. Economics and the potential for solar towers in India are also summarized.
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Kaushik Kishore submitted a seminar report on solar power towers. The report provides details on how solar power towers work, including focusing sunlight with heliostats onto a tower-mounted receiver to heat a working fluid like oil or molten salt. The heated fluid is then used to generate steam and power a turbine generator. Key advantages are the ability to store thermal energy for nighttime or cloudy conditions and generate electricity without emissions. Large solar power towers could provide 200MW of power but require significant land area and precise engineering for the tall tower structure.
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an array of flat, moveable mirrors (called heliostats) to focus the sun's rays upon a collector tower (the
target). The high energy at this point of concentrated sunlight is transferred to a substance that can store
the heat for later use. The more recent heat transfer material that has been successfully demonstrated is
liquid sodium. Sodium is a metal with a high heat capacity, allowing that energy to be stored and drawn
off throughout the evening. That energy can, in turn, be used to boil water for use in steam turbines.
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