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New heat transfer fluids: Increasing performance in solar thermal power plants
Autor: José González-Aguilar-IMDEA Energía Current commercial concentrating solar power (CSP) plants are still largely based on mineral oil parabolic trough technology, developed nearly 30 years ago, and molten-salt and direct steam generation towers [1]. At the same time, Fresnel technology has not fully developed its complete potential achieving a limited deployment and Stirling dish technology has not reached the required degree of development and cost-reduction in order to be competitive with respect to the other STE technologies. Parabolic trough power…