SCHOTT is an international technology group with more than 130 years of experience in the areas of specialty glasses and materials and advanced technologies. With their high-quality products and intelligent solutions, they contribute to their customers’ success and make SCHOTT part of everyone’s life.
SCHOTT Solar CSP with its high performance receivers – which comprise the core of all solar power plants using parabolic trough technologies – contributes decisively to making tomorrow’s energy production possible today. They rank as market and technology leader for receiver tubes and have supplied more than 1 Million receivers to power plants all over the world.
According to SCHOTT’s Public Relations Manager Christina Rettig their company has ongoing projects in Northern African countries as well as in South Africa.
Christina also added that their products are unique in that their receiver has to withstand drastic temperature changes and mechanical stresses throughout its lifetime. The SCHOTT PTR®70 Receiver responds to this challenge in several ways: High solar absorptance, low thermal losses and a durable vacuum body are crucial and in all aspects, the SCHOTT PTR®70 Receiver delivers outstanding results.
Their Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology uses energy from the sun to generate heat, which is used in steam cycles to produce electricity.
The technology is particularly efficient in regions with high direct solar irradiation, encompassing the earth’s Sunbelt on both sides of the equator to 35 degrees latitude.
CSP plants are used in a similar manner like conventional steam power plants. The key difference is that CSP plants use emission-free, clean solar radiation to produce heat instead of fossil or nuclear fuels. Amongst all CSP technologies, the parabolic trough technology has the longest commercial track record of almost 30 years. Parabolic trough power plants are suitable for large-scale use in the range of 10 to 300 megawatts electrical output and can replace conventional thermal power plants without any qualitative changes in the electricity grid structure.
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Christina Rettig
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