Solar Thermal Power Report Ed 1 2005

Content

• Executive Summary
• Technology
• Solar collectors and receivers
• Power conversion systems
• Global solar thermal market
• 1. Development of Solar Thermal Technology
  • Conditions of Use
  • Solar Insolation
  • Solar Thermal Energy and the Environment
• 2. The World Market for Solar Thermal Direct Use
  • Global Distribution of the Direct Use Solar Thermal Market
• 3. Major Direct Use Solar Thermal Markets
  • China
  • Products
  • Flat-plate
  • Vacuum tube
  • Combined storage tank
  • Production
  • Applications
  • Japan
  • India
  • Domestic applications
  • Solar thermal power plants
  • Process heat in India, industrial applications
  • Water desalination and purification
  • Solar pond desalination systems in industrial environment
  • Solar pond desalination systems for drinking water supply
  • Israel
  • USA
• 4. The Development of Solar Thermal Power Generation
  • SEGS plants in California
• 5. Solar Thermal Power Generation Technology
  • The solar collector field
  • The solar receiver
  • The energy conversion system
  • Concentrators and Receivers
  • Parabolic Trough
  • Mechanical Tracking
  • Fresnel Principle Solar Collectors
  • Parabolic Dish Systems
  • Central Receiver Systems - Solar Tower
  • Solar Chimney Power Plants
  • Power Conversion System
  • Rankine-Cycle Systems
  • Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Systems
  • Thermal Storage Devices
• 6. Current Status of Solar Thermal Electricity Generation
  • Large Scale Solar Thermal Electricity Generation
  • India
  • Morocco
  • Egypt
  • Mexico
  • Spain
  • Planta Solar
  • Solar Tres
  • EuroSEGS
  • AndaSol-1 and 2
  • Iran
  • Israel
  • Jordan
  • South Africa
  • United States
  • Algeria
  • Italy
  • Brazil
  • Australia
  • Denmark
• 7. Costs of STP Solar Thermal Power
  • Commercialisation World Bank
  • World Bank Plan Phase 1
  • World Bank Plan Phase 2
  • World Bank Plan Phase 3
  • Sargent and Lundy Study
• List Of Figures
  • Figure 2.1: : Global insolation levels
  • Figure 3.1: Geographical distribution of solar thermal installations
  • Figure 3.2: Sales of solar thermal collectors in Europe, m2 per year, 1990-2000
  • Figure 4.1 : Market shares of solar thermal product types in China, 2000
  • Figure 4.2: Solar water heaters on roofs in China
  • Figure 4.3: Advertisement for the Climax Solar-Water Heater, the world's first commercial solar
  • water heater, patented in 1891
  • Figure 4.4: The home of Walter van Rossem, overlooking the Pasadena Rose Bowl.
  • Figure 4.5: Early solar thermal roof panels
  • Figure 6.1: Parabolic trough reflector
  • Figure 6.2: Side view of a EuroTrough ET150 collector unit (150m length)
  • Figure 6.3: Operating principles and daily tracking of a parabolic trough collector
  • Figure 6.4: Parabolic dish system
  • Figure 6.5: The solar tower
  • Figure 6.6: CESA-1 Central tower test facility at Plataforma de Almeira, Spain
  • Figure 6.7: Artist's impression of a solar chimney
  • Figure 6.8: Rankine-Cycle STPP (courtesy of Pilkington Solar International
  • Figure 6.9: Integrated Solar/Combined Cycle System
  • Figure 7.1: Regions developing solar thermal projects
  • Figure 8.1: LEC Levelised Energy Cost, solar trough and tower technology, 2004-2020
• List Of Tables
  • Table 3.1: Global sales of solar thermal glazed collector, 1999
  • Table 5.1: Early solar thermal power plants
  • Table 6.1: Comparison of Solar Thermal Power Technologies
  • Table 7.1: Solar thermal projects in development
  • Table 7.2: Solar Thermal power targets in Spain by Regions
  • Table 8.1: Cost of Parabolic Trough STPP as listed in Recent Feasibility Studies
  • Table 8.2: Estimated Near-term Cost of Central Receiver STPP (in $/kW total plant output)
  • Table 8.3: Current US Cost and Performance of Conventional Power Plants Component
  • Table 8.4: Required Investment in STPPs by Phase
  • Table 8.5: Sargent & Lundy allocated cost reductions as follows: