江阴润阳储能技术有限公司由江阴长江投资集团投资设立，是一个专业生产太阳能光热发电设备和储能设备的制造企业，也是进行太阳能塔式发电系统设计咨询、方案制定、工程总承包的公司。
公司地处江阴临港经济开发区，目前已建成个塔式光热发电的示范项目，同时成功组建了以生产石墨储能为主的光热储能设备制造企业。
公司生产的储能设备引进了澳大利亚Solastor公司的专利技术。该技术目前是国际领先、国内填补空白的固态内置式储能技术，公司得到外方授权，是国际上该技术设备的唯一供应商，在国内则是该技术唯一的许可证使用商。
今后公司将致力于发展成为光热储能行业的领跑者。
集热器是由集热孔将定日镜反射的光能集中吸收，并由储热介质石墨进行储能，通过换热管进行热交换，将水变成工作蒸汽。
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CSP Today – First of its kind CSP plant underway in Cyprus
The following excerpt is from an article posted in CSP Today by Heba Hashem and Sam Phipps on 18th April, 2014.
An innovative 50 MW CSP plant that is due to be built in Cyprus with EU support could pave the way for its graphite based storage system elsewhere in the world, engineers say.
The EOS project, which will be sited at Alasa, in the Limassol district of the Mediterranean island, was proposed by the Cypriot government under the EU NER300 scheme and was approved in late March this year.
Utilising Australian company Solastor’s Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) storage system, EOS will feature three-metre high tanks atop relatively low (20 metre) towers that stand at the centre of a bank of heliostats.
The steel tanks contain high purity graphite blocks, with water pumped through embedded coils of stainless steel pipes. Heat exchangers create super heated “dry” steam, which is discharged to a turbine to produce electricity for the power grid.
The steam is converted back to water, pumped into a holding tank and then back into the tower tank in a sealed system. “Solastor and the engineering contractor have a memorandum of understanding and we are just waiting for the finalising of the EU grant,” said a source close to the project. “We expect it to be between €47m and €60m, and the total cost of the plant will be about €175m.”
Project features
The EOS 50 MW CSP project will supply about 5 per cent of Cyprus’s electricity generation, with power on demand, even after sunset.Each heliostat will be approximately 10 sq metres, with 100 to 120 reflectors per tower. This modular design is well suited to the uneven terrain of Cyprus, enabling modules to be positioned at various levels, on separate terraces, rather than on one vast expanse of flat land.
The plant will comprise up to 600 modules, a power station with two steam turbine generators, a switch sub-station to transmit energy to the national grid, and a series of steam condensers.
The heliostats will be toroidal and made of metal, covered with a form of silver foil, rather than the more usual glass. The super-heated steam generated by the array can either produce electricity via the steam turbine – for the national grid or to power specific installations – or it can provide “thermal input”: the industrial steam for processing, heating/cooling and waste combustion such as incineration of biomass or household waste.
Much of the equipment and infrastructure for EOS will be built in Cyprus, providing local construction and engineering jobs.
Alfa Mediterranean Enterprises Ltd is developing the project on a total area of some 1.8 million sq metres.
Another application of Solastor’s CST technology is a 3 MW facility at Lake Cargellico, also in New South Wales.
Located on the outer limits of the main power grid, the town was susceptible to blackouts and power instability before the solar thermal plant, which consists of eight modules and a steam turbine, started producing electricity in May 2011.
Lloyd Energy Systems won a grant from the Australian government to support construction of the facility but sold its interests in Lake Cargellico in 2011.
The EOS 50 MW CSP project will supply about 5 per cent of Cyprus’s electricity generation, with power on demand, even after sunset.
