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ANEENA PAULSON
Contents
• Introduction
• Working Principle of Solar Tower
• Classification
1)Steam Based
2)Molten Salt Based
• Heliostat
• Central Receiver
• Parabolic Trough
• Photovoltaics
• Tower Design
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Application
• Establishment Of Solar Tower In India
INTRODUCTION
Solar power tower generated electric
power from sunlight by focusing
concentrated solar radiation on a tower
mounted heat exchanger (receiver).
• Steam based
• Molten based
Steam Based Solar Tower
• Water is used to as medium which is
converted to steam to generate eletric-
power.
• In solar tower water is pumped to the
receiver at topmost part of solar tower.
• New solar radiation would be
concentrated on receiver at heliostate.
• Thus steam is generated due to rise in
Temperature inside the receiver tank, whi-
ch is further used in steam turbine gener-
ator.
HELIOSTAT
• Heliostat is a Greek word, Helios-sun, sat-
stationary.
• A heliostat is a device that tracks the
movement of a sun.
• Heliostat are mirror solar tracking on two axis it
concentrated the reflected solar radiation on a
focal point located at the top of a tower.
• A heliostat is a device made a plane metallic
mirror which turns on as to keep reflecting
sunlight towards a predetermined target.
Limitation of this method is there is no
alternative to Produce eletricity in the absence
of sunlight.
HELIOSTAT
CENTRAL RECEIVER
• It is used systems,use a field of
distributed mirrors heliostats.That
individually track the sun and focus the
sunlight,on the top of a tower.
• By concentrating the sunlight 600-1000
times.They achieve temparature from
800 -1000 degree celcious.Receiver
panel has fluid which collect heat.
PARABOLIC TROUGH
• Parabolic through consists of a linear
parabolic reflector that concentrates
light onto a receiver positioned along
the flreoctos’s focal line.The receiver
is a tube positioned right above the
middle of the parabolic mirror and is
filled with a working fluid.
• The reflector mirror to follow the sun
Parabolic
During the daylight
hours by tracking
along a single axis.
Parabolic trough
systems provide t-he
best land-use f-actor
of any solar
technology.
Photovoltaics
• Multiple solar cells are connected inside
modules.Modules are wired together to form
arrays, then tied to an inverter,which produce
power at desired voltage,and for AC,the
desired frequency/phase.
• Many residential systems are connected to the
grid,in these grid-connected,use of energy
storage is optional.In certain applications such
as satellites,lighthouses etc…
Molten Salt Based Solar Tower
• Here melted solution of potassium nitrate
and sodium nitrate of water as a medium.
• This molten salt mixture(60%sodium nitrate
and 40%potassium nitrate)is used due to its
properties of absorbing and accumulating
heat energy for long time.
• This plant is known as Gama solar Tower.
• This type of solar tower will work for
approximate 4-5 hours in absence of
sunlight.
TOWER DESIGN
it depends on the:
o Seismic consideration
Tower Design
• The weight and size of a receiver are
affected by the fluid choice and
heliostat field size.
• Typical weight for a 380MW receiver
range from 250,000 kg for an external
receiver using liquid sodium to
2,500,000 kg for a cavity air receiver.
• These would be placed at the top of a
140 to 170m tower.
Tower Design
Material for Tower Construction