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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2014
E-cube Energy Technologies, Ltd., Saratoga, CA (US);
Xiao Dong Xiang, Danville, CA (US);
Lu Wu, Guang An, CN;
E-Cube Energy Technologies, Ltd., Saratoga, CA (US);
Abstract
A fixed target solar thermal tower design is provided that utilizes a low number of collector modules (), e.g. 5 to 30, mounted on solar-tracking mechanisms. The collector modules may be rotatable so as to reflect incident sunlight onto a target receiver () mounted on a tower (), and substantially all of the collector modules for a given tower may be located in a rectangular area that extends polewards from the tower by a distance of approximately three times the height h of the target receiver and that is approximately h wide. Each collector module may have a plurality of reflectors () that are angled so as to reflect incident light generally towards a common point on the target receiver. Multiple such solar thermal tower plants may be collocated and ganged together to provide higher overall power output.