Decarbonization Avenue : Concentrated Solar Power

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Aluminium parabolic mirror dish for enhancing efficiency of CSP

Existing parabolic CSP systems use glass mirrors which are costly and heavy leading to operational challenges for large scale plants. Use of aluminium mirrors could be a cost-effective solution while enhancing energy absorption efficiency of CSP systems.

Innovations that enable the scaling up the use of aluminium parabolic mirror dishes by overcoming their challenges could significantly cut down the costs for solar CSP power plants.

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  • Industrial EHS professional
  • Operations & maintenance professional
  • Electrical engineer

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  • Renewable energy sciences

Web Resources

Alucoil aluminium mirrors for solar CSP

Source: Alucoil

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DLR durability studies of glass and aluminium solar reflectors for CSP technologies

01-08-2018

Source: DLR Institute

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Alubond solar collector mirrors

Source: Alubond

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Researchers from DLR and CIEMAT developed new methodology for accelerated aging of aluminum solar mirrors

01-05-2016

Source: DLR Institute, CIEMAT

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NREL and Alcoa test aluminium mirrors for concentrating solar power system

Source: NREL, Alcoa

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Sustainable materials

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Core sciences & engineering

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Solar energy