We couldn’t be more pleased with NREL’s assessment.” Parabolic trough solar concentrators, such as the SkyTrough, are designed to harness the sun’s energy to make steam for electricity ...

Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC): A solar concentrator that utilises a parabolic-shaped reflector to focus sunlight onto a receiver tube, thereby converting solar radiation into thermal energy.

Parabolic troughs and dry-cooled towers deliver similar value for concentrating solar power plants, despite different solar profiles, a new report has found. Parabolic troughs and dry-cooled ...

“Parabolic troughs are known, so they know what the costs are, and they can make them at a predictable rate,” he says. But like almost all concentrating-solar systems, they require a tracking ...

Name and Location KaXu Solar One parabolic trough plant and Khi Solar One concentrating solar power (CSP) projects, Northern Cape, South Africa. Client Abengoa Solar South Africa, through its ...

ARVADA, CO--(Marketwired - Jan 22, 2014) - SkyFuel's parabolic trough concentrating solar collector was installed in a trial of WaterFX's new Aqua4™ solar thermal desalination technology.

Our current research focuses on solar tower systems using molten salt, air, or particles as heat transfer media and molten salt parabolic trough systems. We are working to ensure that concentrating ...

And for even more information, you should read two Sandia presentations given to National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) members, "Practical Field Alignment of Parabolic Trough Concentrators ...