New Energy Industry Forces: Solar Thermal Power Generation

The “Guidance Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment (2011 Edition)” recently issued by the Development and Reform Commission will be formally implemented on June 1. Solar thermal power generation was placed in a prominent position among the new energy categories encouraged in the Catalogue encouraged category. According to industry insiders, this means that during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the country will vigorously promote solar thermal power generation and its related equipment manufacturing in terms of industrial policies.

From the “photovoltaic” to “photothermal” solar power generation, the sudden emergence of China's thermal power generation, thermal power generation has a huge negative impact on the ecological environment. With the deteriorating ecological environment and the depletion of disposable energy such as coal and natural gas, solar power has become a hot spot for new energy because of its characteristics of being green, non-polluting, and renewable.

According to Shen Wenzhong, director of the Institute of Solar Energy Research at Shanghai Jiaotong University, China is one of the countries with abundant reserves of solar energy resources. The area with more than 2,000 hours of sunshine per year accounts for more than two-thirds of the country's total area, of which there are conditions. The area of ​​deserts and Gobis that develops solar power plants is about 300,000 square kilometers, accounting for 23% of the total desert area in China. Solar power has great potential for development in China.

In April 2011, the successful results of the 50 MW trough solar project in Inner Mongolia were announced. Datang New Energy Co., Ltd. won the bid at the lowest price of 0.9399 yuan/kWh. Relevant data show that the total investment of the thermal power generation project in Inner Mongolia is about 1.6 billion yuan, and can generate more than 120 million kilowatt-hours per year. Ma Shenghong, a researcher at the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that this is China's first concession project for solar thermal power concessions. This tender is a "zero breakthrough" and is of great significance to China's development of solar thermal power plants.

The principle of solar thermal power generation is that sunlight is collected by a reflector into a solar energy collecting device, solar energy is used to heat the heat transfer medium (liquid or gas) in the collecting device, and then heated to form steam to drive or directly drive the generator to generate electricity. CSP has three types of systems: trough, tower and dish.

Among them, the trough technology has been commercialized on a large scale in foreign countries, and the technology is relatively mature, but the power generation process requires a lot of water; the tower technology is equivalent to the trough technology and also requires a lot of water; only disc technology requires only 1.4 liters of water to generate electricity once. It can adapt to desert and Gobi regions with long sunshine hours, and has the highest conversion rate among the three types of CSP technologies.

Hu Xuehao, deputy chief engineer of the China Academy of Electric Power Research Institute, believes that solar thermal power generation is the same as thermal power through steam turbines, and solar thermal power generation with thermal storage systems is more conducive to the stability and regulation of the power system. At present, the cost of solar thermal power generation is the same as the cost of photovoltaic power generation, but there is no thermal storage equipment for photovoltaic power generation, and solar thermal power generation can use thermal storage devices to provide stable power output. If thermal storage is considered, the integrated price of CSP is cheaper than PV.

Solar thermal power generation technology has matured Solar thermal power generation has become a hot spot for the development of renewable energy in the world. As early as the 1980s, more than 20 different types of solar thermal power plants with installed capacity of 500 kW or more were installed in foreign countries, of which installed capacity of No. 1 and No. 2 of solar-powered solar thermal power plants in California, USA. Reached 850 MW and 750 MW respectively, solar thermal power generation has begun commercial operation.

China started relatively late. On June 1, 2007, the first 70-kilowatt solar tower solar thermal power generation system in China passed the appraisal and acceptance in Nanjing. On July 1, 2010, Asia's first tower solar thermal power station was built in Yanqing, Beijing.

With the country’s increasing emphasis on renewable energy, the development of the CSP industry is very rapid. According to Wang Zhifeng, director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Solar Energy Utilization and Photovoltaic Systems Key Laboratory, during the "10th Five-Year Plan", Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics and other research institutes and some solar energy companies have begun research projects on solar thermal power generation technology. . At present, Chinese scientists have studied dish-type power generation systems, tower-type power generation systems, and trough-type light concentrating units, and have mastered a number of core technologies for solar thermal power generation, such as high-reflectivity high-precision mirrors and high-precision double Axis tracking control system, heat transfer at high heat flux, solar thermoelectric conversion, etc.

“As far as CSP is concerned, it will take a long time for China to form a solar thermal power generation industry chain from basic materials, host equipment and system design integration.” Ma Shenghong told reporters that many cities in the western part of China are now preparing to launch a light For thermal power generation projects, the country has listed CSP as the first of the new energy incentives in the industry guidance catalogue, which is a significant benefit for the industrialization of CSP systems, and with the scale of production of related equipment, The cost of CSP will also drop rapidly during the 12th Five-Year Plan period.

In view of the future development of China's CSP industry, Ma Shenghong believes that although the CSP system is not high for domestic companies, the domestic companies are still in the hot oil cycle, energy storage and heat exchange technologies. To be further studied, the key is to learn more from Spain and Germany on the technology and experience of the large-scale system. In this regard, he suggested that mobilize the enthusiasm of the relevant units of the industry chain, through the actual training of the power plant projects to improve and strengthen the testing methods and experimental platforms of the industry chain. In addition, the government should strengthen quality control and establish a quality assessment system.

Photovoltaic power generation is expected to become the "leading energy" in the future

The strategic position of solar power in our country is becoming more and more important. In 2010, the "Decision on Accelerating the Cultivation and Development of Strategic Emerging Industries" promulgated by the State Council clearly stated that it would "explore a diversified solar photovoltaic solar thermal power generation market." The "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" outline just released this year also once again clarified the need to focus on the development of new energy industries including solar thermal utilization and photovoltaic solar thermal power generation.

The nuclear power plant accident caused by the Great Earthquake in Japan has caused governments and industry insiders to rethink new energy strategies. There are still many uncertainties in the issue of nuclear safety. While countries are considering plans to reduce nuclear power development, China has begun a comprehensive review of nuclear power plants under construction and suspended the approval of nuclear power projects.

Compared with wind power, the state's fine-tuning of the wind power industry policy has been implemented through the guidance of the industrial structure adjustment. In the future, wind turbines or parts manufacturing companies that do not meet the policy will not be encouraged by policies. Wind energy is a clean renewable energy source, but the wind is intermittent and the wind speed is not stable. Therefore, the amount of electricity generated by wind power generation is also unstable.

The solar thermal power generation is characterized by its good compatibility with the existing power grid, high photoelectric conversion rate, continuous and stable power generation and peaking power generation, and the production process of power generation equipment is green, environmentally friendly, and does not produce any toxic substances. attention. People in the industry generally believe that photovoltaic and solar thermal power generation all have good prospects. The two are not alternatives to each other, but parallel development. The “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” outlines that during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the country should focus on Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, and Yunnan provinces and build more than 5 million kilowatts of solar power stations.

Relevant experts believe that under the general trend of global low-carbon economy and new energy, light-heating electrodes may become China's largest share of the dominant energy in the future.

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