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Solar thermal panel for large scale applications

By District Energy posted 07-25-2022 17:02

  

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Swiss startup TVP Solar has developed a solar thermal panel that can produce hot water or steam at between 80 C and 180 C for industrial process heat, district heating, and air conditioning. “Typical applications are large scale solar plants dedicated to solar heat for industrial processes (SHIP), providing pressurized hot water or steam up to 180 C to industries such as food & beverage, chemical, textile, paper, oil and gas, mining, and automotive,” TVP Solar's Vice President Business Development, Guglielmo Cioni, told pv magazine. “All of these industries have a major share of fuel consumption to produce heat below 180 C of temperature.”

The company said its MT-Power panel exhibits minimal thermal losses and no degradation over time, with an average thermal efficiency of up to 64.5% and a peak thermal efficiency of 68.6%. “The efficiency can also be higher, depending on temperature,” Cioni stated. “It may be a real booster for thermal output, by combining solar thermal to photovoltaics and heat pumps to provide enhanced output per square meter, in particular for low-temperature applications such as district heating.”

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