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General information |
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| Name |
DOPPELT Ball solar thermal plan Fairfield
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| Country installed |
United States
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| Address |
2400 Huntington Dr, Fairfield, CA94533
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| Industry sector, NACE code |
C25 - Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment
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| Solar thermal system owner / operator |
SOLID America Energy Service LLC
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| Solar thermal engineering company |
SOLID Solar Energy Systems GmbH
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| Process integration engineering company |
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| Year of operation start |
2023
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Technical parameters |
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| Collector technology |
flat plate collector
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| Collector name |
Sunrain, TIGI
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| Installed collector area (gross), m² |
3956.0
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| Installed collector area (aperture), m² |
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| Installed collector area (absorber), m² |
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| Installed thermal power (actual), kWth |
2173.0
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| Solar collector loop heat transfer fluid |
water/glycol
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| Solar energy storage |
short-term water storage
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| Storage volume, m³ |
106
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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 |
Can washing (Salube Oil Septan, Wash Water Treatment)
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| Unit operation |
cleaning
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| Point of Solar Heat Integration |
B1) Heating of process(es) / process vessel(s)
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| --> Integration how and where |
B1
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| --> Temperature range process |
44 - 64 °C
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| --> Temperature range solar loop (min/max), C° |
50 - 100 °C
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Economic parameters |
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| Total investment costs (excl. VAT), € |
4.30
(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 |
60%
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| Cost for fuel replaced, €/MWhfuel |
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| Calculated solar thermal system life time, a |
25
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| Annual useful solar heat delivery, MWh/a |
3,747 MWh/a
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| Specific annual useful solar heat delivery, MWh/am² |
0.0
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| Specific investment costs, €/m² |
0.0
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| Solar fraction, % |
60%
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Lessons learned |
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| Initiative |
A representative of the industrial company saw a solar thermal system at a brewery in Hawaii. He was intrigued by the technology and that's how it started.
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| Integration methodology |
Based on temperature and volume flow.
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Source |
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| Author |
Moritz Schubert, Johannes Luttenberger
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| Company of author |
SOLID Solar Energy Systems
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| E-mail |
m.schubert@solid.at
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| Phone |
+43 316 292840
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