Decarbonization Avenue : Concentrated Solar Power

Challenges

Challenges with absorber materials

An ideal selective absorber material for the CSP system not only needs to have high absorption in the spectral range with high concentrations of solar power and reflecting wavelengths with high amounts of blackbody radiation, but it also needs to be low cost and exhibit long-term chemical, physical, and thermal stability at their operating temperature - a combination that is not so easy to find.


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