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DAWN Synhelion synthetic aviation fuel – IMAGE © Synhelion Two years of plant DAWN: proving synthetic fuel production at industrial scale Source: Synhelion – Published in 2026 In 2024, we switched on plant DAWN for the first time. Since starting production in late summer that year, we have gained invaluable operational experience, de-risked our technology, …
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IMAGE © ETH – How cement plants can remove CO2 ftom the atmosphere Source: ETH The production of cement ranks as one of the world’s largest industrial sources of CO₂. A new study now shows how cement production could in future be used to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere – based on a technology utilising …
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Stellio heliostats at Talatan New Energy Park in Qinghai IMAGE © DBC Like most countries, China favors domestic suppliers for its renewable energy projects. As a result, virtually all companies supplying components for the country’s complex concentrated solar power plants are Chinese. However, it is not impossible for a Western company to establish itself as …
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[Ed note: According to Fengli Du at CSTA, the conference tour includes a trip to see the Talatan New Energy Park at Talatan in Qinghai. This has three Tower CSP plants, Power China has a 50MW and a 100 MW under construction, and China Energy has a 100MW.] Source: CSTA Invitation from the Conference Chair …
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Abstract: Concentrated solar thermal (CST) systems based on solid particle receivers demand granular materials that combine mechanical resilience, stable flow behaviour, and favourable thermophysical properties at high operating temperatures. Although optical performance has received extensive attention in the recent literature, the mechanical attrition kinetics, flowability characteristics, and thermophysical property evolution of waste-derived particles remain insufficiently …
Abstract: Volumetric solar receivers perform a critical role in high-efficiency concentrated solar power systems, where effective absorption and conversion of concentrated solar radiation directly determine overall performance. This study presents a fully coupled pore-scale modeling framework that integrates Monte Carlo ray tracing with direct hydrothermal simulations on silicon carbide () and alumina () ceramic foam …
According to CGN, the plant’s mirror field covers a staggering total aperture area of 3.7 million square meters, comprising three 1.1-million-square-meter tower fields and one 400,000-square-meter trough field. Source: China Daily China’s 350-megawatt concentrated solar power demonstration project is set to deliver a replicable, large-scale model for the nation’s CSP commercialization, backed by world-leading thermal …
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Kevin Tu on CSP in China energy planning in the 15th Five-Year Plan China has really been building out CSP at a rapid pace in the last few years, overtaking what the US ever built commercially through 2015 (1.5 GW), and now China is second only to what Spain built in the last decade, 2.3 …
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An interview with Lauri Myllyvirta, co-founder and lead analyst of the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, an independent research organization headquartered in Finland with staff across Europe and Asia, about China’s 15th Five-Year Plan. SK: I was surprised that in this 15th Five-Year Plan, concentrated solar thermal was sort of singled out, …
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Deputy GM and Chief Engineer Dai Zengli of SEPCOIII welcomed CSTA to the launch. Qingdao, China — July 2, 2026 — SEPCOIII has commissioned a new flexible assembly line for high-precision wind-resistant heliostats at its Hongfeng Equipment subsidiary, adding standardized, large-scale heliostat manufacturing capacity. According to SEPCOIII’s technical report on the line, the core advances …
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