DUKE test facility for direct steam generation
DUKE test facility for direct steam generation
In the DUKE (Durchlaufkonzept – Entwicklung und Erprobung; Once-through Concept – Development and Testing) test facility, at the Plataforma Solar in Almería, owned by the Spanish research centre CIEMAT, the steam that drives the turbine is generated directly in the receiver tube. In today's plants, synthetic thermal oil is used as the heat transfer medium.
