Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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the last technique for steam power plants is solar power plants.
Solar power plants are environmentally friendly as they produce no pollution.
Large-scale solar reflective plants require a substantial amount of area as well as specific orientation with the sun to capture the maximum energy possible with high efficiency.
Solar energy is reflected off mirrors and concentrated on a centralized boiler system. The mirrors are parabolic-shaped and motorized to focus the sun’s energy toward the receiver tubes in the collector area of the elevated boiler. The receiver tubes contain a heat transfer fluid used in the steam–boiler– turbine system. The collector area housing the receiver tubes absorbs the focused sun energy to gain 30 to 100 times normal solar energy. The fluid in
these tubes can reach operating temperatures in excess of 400 degrees Celsius. The steam drives the turbine and then goes through a condenser for conversion back to liquid before being reheated in the boiler system.
A typicalsolar power plant is shown in above figures.
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