Beyond Conventional

Have you ever tried to burn things using a magnifying glass?

If you have, then you know that in order to set a fire, you need to track the Sun with the magnifying glass. The convex lens in the magnifying glass focuses the beam of Sun’s rays at a single point on a flammable material. There, if you are patient enough, you will see the smoke and that is when the material starts burning.

The Storenergy CSP system works on the same principle. To collect the heat from the Sun, we use a concentrator instead of the magnifying glass, and non-imaging mirrors have the role of lenses. Our concentrator can automatically follow the position of the Sun by rotating around two axes. The rest of the process resembles the process happening in gas boilers, only in this case we use solar radiation instead of the gas. Rays from the Sun are focused by concentrator’s mirrors onto the receiver where a heat transfer fluid collects the heat from the Sun and transfers it to the thermal storage or a heat engine.