Durango Dairy Company (Productos Lácteos COVBARS)

	General information

Name	Durango Dairy Company (Productos Lácteos COVBARS)
Country installed	Mexico
Address	Av. Francisco Villa 1211, Villa de Guadalupe, Durango, Durango, Mexico. CP: 34040
Industry sector, NACE code	C10.5 - Manufacture of dairy products
Solar thermal system owner / operator	Productores Lácteos COVBARS S.P.R. DE R.L.
Solar thermal engineering company	INVENTIVE POWER SAPI DE CV
Process integration engineering company	INVENTIVE POWER SAPI DE CV
Year of operation start	2013

	Technical parameters

Collector technology	parabolic trough collector
Collector name	Power Trough 110
Installed collector area (gross), m²	265.68
Installed collector area (aperture), m²	132.0
Installed collector area (absorber), m²
Installed thermal power (actual), kW_th	46.2
Solar collector loop heat transfer fluid	water
Solar energy storage	short-term water storage
Storage volume, m³	7
Kind of conventional heat source	steam boiler
Kind of fuel used	fuel oil

	Economic parameters

Total investment costs (excl. VAT), €	40,000.00 (Turnkey costs including solar collectors, piping, support construction, storage, design, commissioning reduced with subsidies)
Solar loop (excl. VAT), €	(Solar collectors, piping, support construction)
Solar energy storage (excl. VAT), €
Others (excl. VAT), €	(Design, commissioning, others)
Process integration (excl. VAT), €
Subsidy, € or % of total investment costs	50%
Cost for fuel replaced, €/MWh_fuel
Calculated solar thermal system life time, a	20 years
Annual useful solar heat delivery, MWh/a
Specific annual useful solar heat delivery, MWh/am²
Specific investment costs, €/m²	150.56
Solar fraction, %