solar power tower
What is the difference between solar towers and solar collectors?
Solar collectors and towers are the focus of the mirrors to generate steam for electricity. Plants used traditional channels, but recently companies have begun to use the towers. What is the difference?
There is another technology solar "solar tower" refers to. The idea of creating a draft that can be used for power or air conditioning. This is often referred to as a fireplace solar. But your question is about two types of concentrated solar power (CSP.) The concentration is presented in both cases reflect the sunlight onto a target. In the case of a "Solar Tower point" of the merger is a goal that is high in a tower. The reflection is done by heliostats. These are essentially the flat mirrors that are a mechanism used to track the sun (in both directions.) During the day the mechanism of many heliostats often arranged in a circle around of the tower to keep the sunlight reflected in the tower. These designs are being considered in a hybrid configuration with a gas power station. Steam could be produced in the most effective source of heat and then used in a conventional manner to produce electricity. cylinder solar collectors are not exactly "traditional" but it is one of the three primary methods currently used for electricity from solar energy (compared with the use of photovoltaic solar panels: power tower, satellite dish, parabolic trough, solar pond, solar chemistry, solar chimney and thermal solar panels.) solar trough collector are depressions that are organized along an east-west. Along this axis, the collector does not have to move. Sunlight simply find a different point of a linear objective. But the sun also rises and sets and become more efficient cylinder collector must track the sun's altitude. This makes the mechanism for the solar valley simpler (only one direction and a large valley.) the power tower. The aim of the collector is a pipe that is at the focal point of the basin. The water could be used in the steam pipe and can be produced in one pass, but more often used salts that can accumulate more heat. The salts also retain heat for a long period of time and often depressed collector has been built on the storage capacity for the days when the sun shines with the intensity or at night.
