Visual check of the dark absorber tubes in the radiation receiver
Visual check of the dark absorber tubes in the radiation receiver
Last visual check: DLR employee Miriam Ebert checks to ensure that the ceramic fibres protecting the radiation receiver are well sealed. The test power station Solhyco has been constructed in a 60-metre-high solar tower at the Plataforma Solar de Almería, owned by the Spanish research centre CIEMAT, in southern Spain. The sunlight that the mirrors direct on to the radiation receiver in the tower heat the absorber tubes to 800 degrees Celsius. The radially arranged black tubes conduct this heat to a 100-kilowatt micro gas turbine, which drives a generator that in turn produces electricity.
