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A Dormant Giant: Renewable Energy in the Soviet Union and Russia (1970s–Present)
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 2, Page 267-282, April 2025.Abstract In spring 1981 the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party officially sanctioned the start of an “alternative” renewable energy development program in the Soviet Union. Throughout the following decade, some two hundred organizations in the USSR were involved in research and development activities and installing test facilities for ...
Benjamin Beuerle
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ASME 2007 Energy Sustainability Conference, 2007 Power towers are capable of producing solar-generated electricity and hydrogen on a large scale. Heliostats are the most important cost element of a solar power tower plant. Since they constitute ∼50% to the capital cost of the plant it is important to reduce the cost of heliostats to as low as possible to improve the economic viability of power towers.
Gregory J. Kolb +5 more
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Energy Storage, Volume 7, Issue 2, March 2025.ABSTRACT Thermal energy storage offers a viable solution to address the global energy problem of balancing the gap between the energy demand and the energy supply. One of the most advanced and mature thermal energy storage technologies in solar power technologies is a Concentrating Solar Power plant with a tower configuration and molten salts as ...
Marc Majó +5 more
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EnergiesIndustrial process heat typically requires large amounts of fossil fuels. Solar energy, while abundant and free, has low energy density, and so large collector areas are needed to meet thermal needs.
Joshua Freeman +2 more
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A Review of High‐Temperature Molten Salt for Third‐Generation Concentrating Solar Power
Energy Science &Engineering, Volume 13, Issue 2, Page 456-474, February 2025.Our review explores molten salts suitable for third‐generation concentrating solar power (CSP) systems, focusing on carbonates, chlorides, and sulfates. We examine their thermal properties and explore how nanoparticles enhance their heat storage capacity.
Xu Liu +4 more
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5G as Communication Platform for Solar Tower Plants
SolarPACES Conference ProceedingsWiring of heliostat fields for solar tower plants is a cost factor that becomes more important as the overall cost target is decreasing. Wireless heliostats with radio communication and autarchic energy supply have therefore been proposed in the past ...
Peter Schwarzbözl +6 more
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Characterization of heliostat corrosion
Solar Energy Materials, 1980 Abstract Corroded mirrors from a heliostat exposed at Livermore, CA, for seven months have been characterized by a variety of techniques including optical and electron microscopy, reflectance and transmission spectroscopy, and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
J.E. Shelby, J. Vitko, R.L. Farrow
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SolarPACES Conference ProceedingsThe camera target method is the most commonly used calibration method for heliostats at solar tower power plants to minimize their sun tracking errors.
Max Pargmann +4 more
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Development of Heliostat Field Calibration Methods
SolarPACES Conference ProceedingsIn this work, three patent pending calibration methods for heliostat fields of central receiver systems (CRS) developed by the Solar-Institut Jülich (SIJ) of the FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences are presented.
Johannes Christoph Sattler +5 more
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Variation of Heliostat Wind Loads in a Radial Field Array Model
SolarPACES Conference ProceedingsThe design of heliostats throughout a concentrated solar power (CSP) plant are currently of uniform design, however, research into the variation in heliostat wind loading within a radially staggered field array can provide insight into potential material
Matthew Marano +3 more
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