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    A Dish/engine Power Plant.: Solar Concentrator

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    A dish/engine power plant uses a parabolic dish to concentrate sunlight onto an engine at its center. The concentrated sunlight heats a thermal receiver, which transfers the heat to power an engine/generator system. This typically produces 3 to 25 kilowatts of electricity. The dish tracks the sun to maximize sunlight collection. The engine most often used is a Stirling engine, which converts the thermal energy into mechanical power to drive an electricity-generating generator.

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    A Dish/engine Power Plant.: Solar Concentrator

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    A dish/engine power plant uses a parabolic dish to concentrate sunlight onto an engine at its center. The concentrated sunlight heats a thermal receiver, which transfers the heat to power an engine/generator system. This typically produces 3 to 25 kilowatts of electricity. The dish tracks the sun to maximize sunlight collection. The engine most often used is a Stirling engine, which converts the thermal energy into mechanical power to drive an electricity-generating generator.

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    A dish/engine power plant uses a parabolic dish to concentrate sunlight onto an engine at its center. The concentrated sunlight heats a thermal receiver, which transfers the heat to power an engine/generator system. This typically produces 3 to 25 kilowatts of electricity. The dish tracks the sun to maximize sunlight collection. The engine most often used is a Stirling engine, which converts the thermal energy into mechanical power to drive an electricity-generating generator.

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    A Dish/engine Power Plant.: Solar Concentrator

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    A dish/engine power plant uses a parabolic dish to concentrate sunlight onto an engine at its center. The concentrated sunlight heats a thermal receiver, which transfers the heat to power an engine/generator system. This typically produces 3 to 25 kilowatts of electricity. The dish tracks the sun to maximize sunlight collection. The engine most often used is a Stirling engine, which converts the thermal energy into mechanical power to drive an electricity-generating generator.

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    A dish/engine power plant.

    Dish/engine systems use a parabolic dish of mirrors to direct and concentrate


    sunlight onto a central engine that produces electricity. The dish/engine system is a
    concentrating solar power (CSP) technology that produces smaller amounts of
    electricity than other CSP technologies—typically in the range of 3 to 25 kilowatts—
    but is beneficial for modular use. The two major parts of the system are the solar
    concentrator and the power conversion unit.

    Solar Concentrator

    The solar concentrator, or dish, gathers the solar energy coming directly from the
    sun. The resulting beam of concentrated sunlight is reflected onto a thermal
    receiver that collects the solar heat. The dish is mounted on a structure that tracks
    the sun continuously throughout the day to reflect the highest percentage of
    sunlight possible onto the thermal receiver.

    Power Conversion Unit

    The power conversion unit includes the thermal receiver and the engine/generator.
    The thermal receiver is the interface between the dish and the engine/generator. It
    absorbs the concentrated beams of solar energy, converts the energy to heat, and
    transfers the heat to the engine/generator. A thermal receiver can be a bank of
    tubes with a cooling fluid—usually hydrogen or helium—that typically is the heat-
    transfer medium and also the working fluid for an engine. Alternate thermal
    receivers are heat pipes, where the boiling and condensing of an intermediate fluid
    transfers the heat to the engine.

    The engine/generator system is the subsystem that takes the heat from the
    thermal receiver and uses it to produce thermal to electric energy conversion. The
    most common type of heat engine used in dish/engine systems is the Stirling
    engine. A Stirling engine uses the heated fluid to move pistons and create
    mechanical power. The mechanical work, in the form of the rotation of the
    engine's crankshaft, drives a generator and produces electrical power.

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