Everything about Cloncurry Solar Power Station totally explained
A
solar thermal power station is to be built in
Cloncurry, in north-west
Queensland. The
solar thermal power station will have a capacity of 10-
megawatt and will deliver about 30 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year, enough to power the whole town.
Project
The total cost of the project is A$31 million including a A$7 million gift from the government . The plant should be running by early 2010.
Novelty in heat storage
The design is a common
solar power tower design. An array of motorized
heliostat mirrors reflects sunlight to the summit of a tower. The summit houses a receiver, which is heated by the concentrated sunlight. A total of 54 towers of 18m (59 feet) high will be constructed.
A novelty in this power plant is that heat is stored. An important advantage of
solar thermal energy is the possibility of storing heat for later use. In this way, the plant can also produce electricity at night or on overcast days . A common method is the storage of molten nitrate salt in large tanks; this is the technology used in
Solar Tres Power Tower.
The Cloncurry plant uses the new technology of heat storage in blocks of purified
graphite. The blocks are placed on top of the tower. The concentrated light on the receivers of the towers is directly transported to these blocks. The heat for electricity production is drawn from the blocks (ie, there's no direct heat transport from the receiver).
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