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General information |
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Name |
Panoche County Desalination
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Country installed |
United States
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Address |
Panoche County, California
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Industry sector, NACE code |
E - Water supply; sewerage; waste managment and remediation activities
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Solar thermal system owner / operator |
Water FX
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Solar thermal engineering company |
SkyFuel, Inc.
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Process integration engineering company |
ATSI
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Year of operation start |
2013
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Technical parameters |
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Collector technology |
parabolic trough collector
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Collector name |
SkyTrough
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Installed collector area (gross), m² |
690.0
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Installed collector area (aperture), m² |
656.0
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Installed collector area (absorber), m² |
8.75
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Installed thermal power (actual), kWth |
480.0
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Solar collector loop heat transfer fluid |
water/glycol
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Solar energy storage |
no solar energy storage
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Storage volume, m³ |
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Kind of conventional heat source |
hot water boiler
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Kind of fuel used |
natural gas
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Process |
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Solar thermal energy used for |
Desalination
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Unit operation |
evaporation and distillation
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Point of Solar Heat Integration |
A2b) Heating of supply line
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--> Integration how and where |
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--> Temperature range process |
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--> Temperature range solar loop (min/max), C° |
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Economic parameters |
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Total investment costs (excl. VAT), € |
1.00
(Turnkey costs including solar collectors, piping, support construction, storage, design, commissioning reduced with subsidies)
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Solar loop (excl. VAT), € |
(Solar collectors, piping, support construction)
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Solar energy storage (excl. VAT), € |
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Others (excl. VAT), € |
(Design, commissioning, others)
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Process integration (excl. VAT), € |
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Subsidy, € or % of total investment costs |
1
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Cost for fuel replaced, €/MWhfuel |
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Calculated solar thermal system life time, a |
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Annual useful solar heat delivery, MWh/a |
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Specific annual useful solar heat delivery, MWh/am² |
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Specific investment costs, €/m² |
0.0
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Solar fraction, % |
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Lessons learned |
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Initiative |
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Integration methodology |
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Crucial Interfaces |
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Construction / Commissioning |
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Operation / Performance |
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Recommendations |
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Source |
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Author |
Alison Mason
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Company of author |
SkyFuel, Inc.
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E-mail |
alison.mason@skyfuel.com
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Phone |
3033300276
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Homepage |
www.skyfuel.com
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