"The 'Solar Thermal Molten Salt Parabolic Trough Loop Test Platform' has been selected for the 'State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council Central Enterprise Science and Technology Achievement Application Expansion Project List'"
According to the website of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, recently, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Energy Administration jointly issued the first batch of the Central Enterprise Science and Technology Achievement Application Expansion Project List, selecting a total of 50 projects in five categories: production line drive, product traction, project drive, pilot platform, and scenario creation. Among them,China General Nuclear Group Co., Ltd.'s "Solar Thermal Molten Salt Parabolic Trough Loop Test Platform" has been selected.
Regarding the Solar Thermal Molten Salt Parabolic Trough Loop Test Platform:
China General Nuclear Group Co., Ltd. has developed a large aperture molten salt medium parabolic trough collector system with independent intellectual property rights. The prototype of this collector system was completed in January 2024, and on April 15, the parabolic trough collector heliostat radiation tracking platform was assembled. Its collector aperture is 8.6 meters, and the collector temperature is 550 degrees Celsius, making it the largest parabolic trough collector using molten salt medium in China at present.
"The parabolic trough collector heliostat radiation tracking platform is currently the only one in the world that can test the steady-state thermal performance of parabolic trough collectors with Lighting opening width of more than 5.7 meters according to the ISO9806-2017 standard. The length of the collector that can be tested is also twice that of the existing international test platforms," said Wang Zhifeng, the chairman of CSTA, and a professor at the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. This test platform provides an important means for optimizing the solar-thermal conversion performance of parabolic trough collectors and reducing the cost of parabolic trough thermal power generation, which is of great significance.
The parabolic trough collector heliostat radiation tracking platform can also verify the performance of large aperture silicon oil medium parabolic trough collector systems and expand the multi-scenario application of solar thermal energy in high-cold, high-altitude, and heating, steaming, etc.
