Concentrated Tulip Solar Power Plant

Concentrate Tulip Solar System

The tulip concentrating solar power plant has been initiatedby the AORA Company for the Ethiopia country. Such focused solar power plant has been working in Israel for five years. There is also a work done on it by another country such as Spain so both countries collaborated for research and development in it. Such concentrated tulip power plants developed in both countriesare capable of generating electricity.

The system consists of a tulip shape, a long tower that issurrounded by an array of mirrors that are equipped with solar trackers. Thefunction of solar trackers is to move in direction of sun thus helps inreflecting the light from mirrors to concentrate on a tulip tower. Suchconcentration of light helps in generating a high temperature of air such as1000ºC (1832ºF) inside tulip tower and due to that steam turbines are run andthus producing electricity.

Such system is also provisioned a facility of operating atnight or cloudy hour by running plants generator on natural gas or diesel thusmaking it capable of producing power continuously. The most advantage of suchsystem on other concentrated solar power systems is that the system does notrequire any cooling media such as water as other systems does. This is a greatbenefit for Ethiopia that is a partial arid country.

The tulip system is going to be build for Ethiopia in nextyear where the plan is to use other types of plants also that can be used inoff grid locations such as locally by people with the help of trainingprovisioned by AORA staff.

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