What is a high temperature solar power plant?

The operating temperature reached using this concentration technique is above 500 degrees Celsius —this amount of energy heat transfer fluid to produce steam using heat exchangers. The energy source in a high-temperature solar power plant is solar radiation. Meanwhile, a conventional thermal power plant uses fossil fuels such as coal or gas.

How high can a solar receiver withstand a high temperature?

Quite high temperatures can be reached in the solar receiver, above 1000 K, ensuring a high cycle efficiency. This review is focused to summarize the state-of-the-art of this technology and the open challenges for the next generation of this kind of plants.

What is a Gemasolar plant?

Then, in 2011, GEMASOLAR plant , which utilizes a 19.9 MW steam turbine, was already working in Spain too. This plant was pioneer due to an innovative up to 15 h storage system, which uses molten salts as the heat transfer fluid and storage medium . Table 1.

What is a high-intensity solar array?

High-intensity solar array: A secondary solar array (Fig. 14.7) was then incorporated to power the mission at the high-intensity portion of the mission, operating inside 0.25 AU. Since at this distance the intensity was high, the secondary solar array could be much smaller. This power supply used high-efficiency triple-junction solar cells

Should a high-bandgap solar cell be used for high-temperature operation?

For high-temperature operation, as discussed before, a high-bandgap solar cell ma-terial would be preferred, but the blue-deficient spectrum puts a limit on the availability of short-wavelength photons.

What is the world's largest solar thermal plant?

It is the world's largest solar thermal plant, occupying an area of 13 square kilometers just 60 kilometers south of Las Vegas. Its three 139-meter-high towers and more than 300,000 mirrors can produce 392 MW, a clean supply equivalent to reducing 400,000 tons of CO2 annually.