[Gasification] Solar ORC's

[Peter Singfield]

Well -- that got me more "curious" so I ran this search on Google:

"solar orc" and ended up with a pile of hits!!

Looks like everyone and their borhter is building one!!

Here is the exact url for that searchL

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=solar+orc&hl=en&num=100&btnG=Google+Search
&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=lang_en&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as
_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=off

Peter / Belize


At 02:49 PM 2/3/2007 EST, LINVENT at aol.com wrote: 
>>>>
The Arizona APS facility is not the first one in Arizona. DOE built one, I
think it was 100 kw, and the sign was there long after it was dismantled.
DOE/Sandia National Labs built one in Estancia, New Mexico for operating an
irrigation well on a large farming operation of around 25Kwe capacity. They
used the same principles such as the APS site, and their turbine system was
set up to use natural gas as a back up. They used toluene as an operating
fluid on the Rankine cycle, and had a major fire there. The turbine set is
sitting in a scrap yard in Albuquerque. They apparently also had trouble
with the rotating seals on the sun tracking trough mirrors. They had large
hot fluid insulated storage tanks so that they could store the hot fluid
and operate the pump at night. 

There are flat mirror designs which achieve the same effect as curved
mirrors with less cost. I have seen a British group put one in Italy.
Relatively simple design. I understand that there are some coming out here
in the US. Most have missed the boat in not only reflecting suface but the
design of the absorbing surface to absorb the incoming radiation. The
Rankine cycle as developed by Mr. Sterling has a few items missing which
will substantially increase the efficiency and operate better overall. It
is somewhat humorous that a Sterling has improved the Rankine cycle. That
could be confusing in a light conversation. 



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