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Solar Thermal Power Generation and Industrial Process Heat

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High temperature heat production requires a concentrator, an absorber and a heat transfer fluid, with the addition of an engine if electricity is to be generated. Reflector materials need to retain high specular reflectance under often harsh conditions. Specialised high-temperature selective multiple cermet layer coatings prepared by physical vapour deposition are necessary for operating temperatures above 400 °C (Kennedy and Price 2006). Selective coatings for medium-temperature applications such as metal-dielectric cermet composites of metal particles in a ceramic matrix are not stable at high operating temperatures.

In time, manufacturing will to a great extent follow the sun

C.G. Abbot (1928)

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Norton, B. (2014). Solar Thermal Power Generation and Industrial Process Heat. In: Harnessing Solar Heat. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7275-5_7

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