Recently, the early field-leveling of Rayspower Yumen Dongzhen 50MW Parabolic trough CSP Demonstration Project has been officially started. The construction plan of this project is to level off the site and to set up eight steps along the north-south direction (site slope:1.5 per thousand). The total sum of excavation is 141.7850 million cubic meters and the amount of earthwork backfilling is 135.4622 million cubic meters in all. The beginning of field-leveling marked that the project officially entered the comprehensive construction stage.
The project has a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan, covers an area of 2.9 square kilometers and is among the first batch of China’s CSP demonstration projects. It is also the first demonstration project of which Yumen City signed the contract and began the first construction. With a total of 192 trough heat collection loops, this project will be equipped with molten salt heat storage system with 9 hours of duration and is expected to be put into operation by 2018.
Yumen Dongzhen (Jianhua Industrial Zone) is the industrial park with the most demonstration projects and the largest scale of installed capacity in China. The field-leveling of Rayspower Yumen Dongzhen 50MW Parabolic trough CSP Demonstration Project marked the construction of Yumen Dongzhen (Jianhua Industrial Zone) CSP demonstration projects has entered a new stage.
