FEASIBILITY AND POTENTIAL OF CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER IN CHINA
The Chinese power generation capacity is kept increasing to keep the pace with the rapidly growing economy, but the current coal-dominant power construction has resulted in serious environmental impacts as well as rapid depletion of the primary energy resources. The concentrating solar power (CSP) utilizes solar insolation to produce electric power, thus the non-renewable energy resources can be saved. CSP has already nearly 20 years′ experiences of commercial-scale operation in the United States, but it is still in the initial stage in China. The Chinese government aims to promote this technology as part of the solution. This paper presents a feasibility study of CSP in China from the angles of solar radiation resource, geography and Infrastructure, etc.. For comparison, perspectives of the three kinds of CSP including parabolic, tower and dish, are studied respectively to evaluate their potential in China. Also in this paper an overview of the current policies and measures in China to support the development of concentrating solar power is performed. From the study it is concluded that some areas in North-West can be selected as candidate to build the CSP plant, and parabolic and tower are two technologies with potential in China.
Qu Hang Zhao Jun
School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University Tianjin 300072, China
国际会议
2007世界太阳能大会(Proceedings of ISES Solar World Congress 2007)
北京
英文
2007-09-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）