Email
Bookmark
Print
Feed
Share
Sign up for our free e-Newsletters
Aora Launches Hybrid Solar Thermal Station
June 29, 2009
|
1 Comment
Yavne, Israel [RenewableEnergyWorld.com] Aora has launched its first hybrid solar thermal gas turbine power station at Kibbutz Samar in southern Israel. Aora's Samar "Power Flower" station consists of a field of 30 tracking mirrors (heliostats) situated on half an acre of land.
Aora's hybrid approach allows the system to run on solar radiation input, as well as almost any alternative fuel, including biogas, biodiesel and natural gas.
The power module, which was granted a license in March, is expected to supply 100 kilowatts (kW) of power to the national grid. Each of the station's 30 heliostats tracks the sun and reflects its rays towards the top of a 30 meter-high tower housing a special solar receiver along with a 100 kW gas turbine. The patented receiver uses the sun’s energy to heat air to a temperature of 1,000°C and directs this energy into the turbine. The turbine converts the thermal energy into electric power that will be fed directly into the national grid.
Add Your Comment
Registered users, please make sure to Sign-In. We and others want to know your ideas and opinions.
If you are not yet Registered -- it's quick and easy. Just click below. 
|
Recent News |
1 of 1
Especially usefull for rural communities, who are along way to centalised power station. Small stations would also cut losses on power lines, that presently are running around 30% in UK. If power put in at end of line, the power in the line rises.
Just being talking to a commisioning engineer, who has mostly worked in Far East, and Europe. Said "Its not so much the cost of a project, its whether its brought in on time, and to required standard". Use quality equipment that should not need maintenance, and a quality workforce to install said equipment. In other words, do not give completion dates, that are unrealistic. Accountants should look at projects, realistically and not just for cheapest price.
We all know we could buy a cheap car, but how many do that when buying a car. Apart from buying a house, probably buying a car is next biggest purchase, most of us will ever take.