Concentrating Solar Power

Weinstein, Lee A.; Loomis, James; Bhatia, Bikram; Bierman, David M.; Wang, Evelyn N.; Chen, Gang

doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00397

Title: Concentrating Solar Power

Journal Article · Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Chemical Reviews

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00397· OSTI ID:1370973

Weinstein, Lee A. ^[1]; Loomis, James ^[2]; Bhatia, Bikram ^[1]; Bierman, David M. ^[1]; Wang, Evelyn N. ^[1]; Chen, Gang ^[1]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; Univ. of Auckland, Auckland (New Zealand). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Solar energy is a bountiful renewable energy resource: the energy in the sunlight that reaches Earth in an hour exceeds the energy consumed by all of humanity in a year. While the phrase “solar energy conversion” probably brings photovoltaic (PV) cells to mind first, PV is not the only option for generating electricity from sunlight. Another promising technology for solar energy conversion is solar–thermal conversion, commonly referred to as concentrating solar power (CSP). The first utility-scale CSP plants were constructed in the 1980s, but in the two decades that followed, CSP saw little expansion. More recent years, however, have seen a CSP renaissance due to unprecedented growth in the adoption of CSP. Photographs of two operating CSP plants, a parabolic trough collector plant and a central receiver (or “power tower”), are shown in this paper.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001299; FG02-09ER46577

OSTI ID:: 1370973

Journal Information:: Chemical Reviews, Vol. 115, Issue 23; Related Information: S3TEC partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (lead); Boston College; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; ISSN 0009-2665

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