Title :
Power/energy: A solar-pond power plant: Israel reviews an experiment which got under way more then a year ago: Will it prove a model for more like it?
Author_Institution :
Ormat Turbines, Yavne, Israel
Abstract :
After more than a quarter century of research, Israel has built a 7500-m2 salt pond and turned it into an electric power plant. The experimental 150-kW installation, which began operating in December 1979 in Ein Bokek, near the Dead Sea, collects and stores solar energy in water in which the salt concentration increases with depth. A low-temperature turbogenerator converts the thermal energy into electricity.
Keywords :
solar power stations; 150-kW; Ein Bokek; Israel; low-temperature turbogenerator; salt-gradient solar pond; solar-pond power plant; Fluids; Heating; Lakes; Ocean temperature; Power systems; Turbines;
Journal_Title :
Spectrum, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSPEC.1981.6369581
