Thermo-Mechanical Solar Power Plants

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Opening Session

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Workshop Introduction

      • J. Gretz

      Pages 3-3

   3. Welcome Speech

      • G. R. Bishop

      Pages 4-4

   4. Keynote Speech

      • Albert Strub

      Pages 5-6

3. Presentation on the General Experience of Central Receiver Power Plants

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Summary of the Session by the Rapporteur

      • F. Pharabod

      Pages 8-9

   3. Technical Aspects of the Eurelios Plant Operation

      • C. Corvi, G. Dinelli

      Pages 10-20

   4. Central Receiver Solar Power Plant of the IEA/SSPS Project

      • W. Grasse, F. Ruiz

      Pages 21-34

   5. 10 MWe Solar Thermal Central Receiver Pilot Plant Overview Part I

      • A. C. Skinrood

      Pages 35-46

4. Presentation on the General Experience of Central Receiver Power Plants

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Summary of the Session by the Rapporteur

      • L. Vant-Hull

      Pages 48-51

   3. A 1MWe Solar Thermal Electric Power Pilot Plant (Sunshine Project)

      • T. Mukai, T. Horigome, N. Ikeda, T. Sakamoto

      Pages 52-61

   4. Themis Plant Operation Progress Report

      • V. Mascle, F. Pharabod, B. Rivoire

      Pages 62-72

   5. CESA-1 Project Status Report

      • J. Avellaner, C. Ortiz, F. Martínez, F. Sánchez

      Pages 73-82

5. Heliostat Field

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Summary Of The Session By The Rapporteur

      • B. Bonduelle

      Pages 84-85

   3. Conceptional Design of Solar Power Plant with Central Receiver Tower Based on Improved Heliostats

      • H. Yoshikawa, N. Ikeda

      Pages 86-91

   4. SSPS-CRS Heliostat Performance/History

      • P. Wattiez, J. Ramos

      Pages 92-99

   5. Heliostat Field and Receiver Efficiency Measurement on the Iea — 500 kWe — CRS at Almeria

      • W. Schiel

      Pages 100-105

In this book, the Commission of the European Communities presents the proceedings of the Workshop on Solar Central Receiver Projects, held in Varese, I taly , in June 1984. This Workshop was supported by all operators of solar tower power plants around the world and, as a result, these proceedings provide a comprehensive overview of the technology in its current state of development. The Workshop was organized by the Commission of the European Communities in the frame of the second solar energy R&D programme under the responsibility of its Di rectorate-General (X 11) for Science, Research and Development in Brussels. The meeting place, Varese, in Italy, was selected because of its neighbourhood to the Ispra Establishment of the Commission's Joint Research Centre who cooperated in the organization of the Workshop. Solar power plants of the central receiving type have two conflicting characteristics: they employ very simple and classical components but as a system they are of tremendous complexity. It was the hope for rapid progress by using available components that guided the decisions taken in the late seventies to build six large experimental plants: four in Europe, one in Japan and one in the United States. At that time, this technology enjoyed high priority in solar energy R&D around the world. Once the plants were completed, however, it became clear that the technical complexity combined with difficult meteorological conditions at most construction sites made the yields less favourable than anticipated.

• Europe
• complexity
• construction
• development
• energy
• operator
• organization
• plants
• receiver
• research
• solar energy
• solar power
• technology

• Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-General Science, Research and Development, Belgium

  J. Gretz, A. Strub, W. Palz

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