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100 MW Fresnel CSP project in Hami, Xingjiang pioneers multiple operating automation breakthroughs Source: China Solar Thermal Alliance On September 18, the 100 MW CSP plant of the CTGR Hami 1 GW “CSP + PV” integrated demonstration project—general-contracted by Northwest Electric Power Design Institute Co., LTD, of China Power Engineering Consulting Group（CPECC Northwest）, the executive …
IMAGE ©NASA Daedalus crater shows the problem the indirect solar receiver solves. Orlando’s team proposes positioning solar concentrating mirrors – heliostats – atop the crater rims, aiming concentrated solar irradiation down into the darkness of the crater, with the light focused onto a solar receiver partly embedded in the icy surface to heat it to …
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Abstract: Currently the thermal effect of light has received extensive attention in the field of concentrating solar power gasification, but the non-thermal effect of light has been neglected. In this study, a high-flux solar simulator was coupled with a thermogravimetric analyzer and the thermal effects of concentrating solar power were effectively controlled. The non-thermal effect …
Following their review, published at Astra Astronautica, covering all previous research using concentrated solar energy to generate heat for melting lunar regolith, co-authors Stéphane Abanades, Silvain Rodat and PhD student, Jack Robinot, propose that the most promising technology to extract oxygen using concentrated solar could be vacuum pyrolysis.They have just performed their first test. “We …
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Wan Yuan from Cosin Solar accepts the Technology Implementation Award from SolarPACES Chair Gilles Flamant On the final day of the SolarPACES Conference 2025, Cosin Solar received the inaugural SolarPACES Implementation Award for the 50 MW Delingha Concentrated Solar Power plant, recognizing its long term stable operation of concentrated solar technologies. Since beginning operation among …
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CSTE presents here its photo contest prizewinners for 2024 and 2025 To echo China’s call for clean energy and sustainable development, and to accelerate the popularization and application of CSP technology, the CSTA held the “Spring Photography Contest of CSP Stations” in the first half of 2025. Eleven works stood out from the entries—please enjoy …
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On behalf of himself and Craig Turchi, NREL’s Mark Mehos accepts the SolarPACES Lifetime Achievement Award from Gilles Flamant, Chair of SolarPACES On the closing day of SolarPACES 2025 in Almeria, NREL’s Mark Mehos and Craig Turchi were jointly recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award for transformative leadership in advancing the commercialization of concentrating solar …
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Accepting the SolarPACES Technology Innovation Award 2025 for the Innovative High-Temperature Air-Based Integrated CST for Flexible Renewable Heat are Pok Wan Kwang and Gediz Karaca from ODQA, with Rafael Guedez, Silvia Trevisan and Konstantinos Apostolopoulos-Kalkavouras from KTH The 2025 Technology Innovation Award was jointly presented to ODQA, a University of Oxford spin-off, together with KTH …
Abstract: The two-step solar-thermochemical cycle process for water splitting is a promising technology for hydrogen generation with very high theoretical efficiencies. This study investigates the operational behavior of a prototype solar reactor with thermal power of 250 kW. A multi-physical reactor model is used for analyzing the dynamical process behavior of the reactor’s porous metal …
Abstract: This study addresses the direct reduction of iron ore with hydrogen and solar energy as the process heat source for clean iron/steel making and decarbonation of the metallurgical process. A novel rotary-type solar reactor was designed, constructed and tested for demonstration of hydrogen-based direct iron ore reduction under real direct solar irradiation. Such a …