Molten salts for efficient solar thermal plants
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 05:02
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers from Siemens intend to substantially boost the efficiency of solar thermal power plants and thus reduce the costs of this climate-neutral method of power generation. They intend to use mixtures of molten salts as heat transfer media in the High Performance Solar Thermal Power project. In conjunction with partners, scientists from Siemens will construct a pilot plant in Portugal and test the use of molten salt mixtures in parabolic trough power plants.