CX-100971 SMART MS Trough: Simplified Melting and Rotation-joint Technology for Molten Salt Troughs

Award Number: DE-EE0008140CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6Solar Energy Technologies OfficeLocation(s): COOffice(s): Golden Field Office

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August 21, 2017
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Award Number: DE-EE0008140
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Fuel Cell Technologies Office
Location(s): CO
Office(s): Golden Field Office

 

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE} is proposing to provide federal funding to Solar Dynamics LLC to develop and demonstrate 1. prototype interconnect piping componentry for parabolic trough solar collectors, 2. Alternative operational protocols for freeze protection and recovery of parabolic trough receiver tubes containing molten salt mixtures, and 3. a molten salt trough CSP plant process model.