Industrial heat applications are a significant market for concentrating solar technologies. Currently, concentrating collector technologies are offered by a number of suppliers. This publication gives an overview on the installations which have been built recently in terms of capacity, application and country. Several examples show combinations with storage, different heat transfer media and a large collector field for district heating. Facilitating financing is possible by ESCOs (Energy Service Companies) and collector certification according to ISO9806.

Topics
Concentrating collectors, Heat transfer, Solar system, Education, Scholarly publishing
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