Continuous Renewable Energy Generation by Solar Radiation

Abstract

The world is seeing a changing trend from conventional cooking system to most reliable and predominant solar cooking system which is going wild commercially. This ideal attempts a heat energy storage for power generation in which a Molten Salt is proposed for Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating Solar cooking systems. In the concept numerous large, flat, sun-tracking mirrors, known as trough are used which focuses sunlight onto a receiver at the top of a tall tower. Some power towers use water/steam as the heat-transfer fluid. Other advanced styles are experimenting with ionic liquid nitrate salt as a result of its superior heat-transfer and energy-storage capabilities. The technology uses several large, sun-tracking mirrors ordinarily referred as heliostats to focus daylight on a receiver at the highest of a tower. The enormous amount of energy, coming out of the sun rays, concentrated at one point (the tower in the middle), produces temperatures of approximately 550°C to 650°C. The gained thermal energy will be used for ionic liquid salt, that saves the energy for later use. High temperature heated water converts to super heated steam, which is used to move the turbine-generator. This way thermal energy is converted into electricity.

Keywords— Concentration Solar Power (CSP), Heliostats, Molten Salt, Thermal Energy Storage Non-pollutant power technology.