Engineering for Concentrating Solar Power Plants in China: Gansu Akesai (50 MW, Global Milestone) and Lanzhou Dacheng (50 MW)

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IDOM has delivered engineering services for the Gansu Akesai concentrating solar power plant, a global milestone as the world’s first commercial-scale plant using molten salts as a heat transfer fluid in parabolic trough collectors. This concentrating solar power plant, with parabolic trough technology and 50 MW of capacity, benefitted from IDOM’s basic and detailed engineering for its thermal energy storage system, as commissioned by Tianjin Binhai Concentrating Solar Power Investment Co., Ltd. Additionally, for the Lanzhou Dacheng project, IDOM developed the basic engineering for the molten salt system, thermal storage system, and steam generation system, strengthening its leadership in advanced CSP solutions in China.

The developer of the Gansu Akesai project (Tianjin Binhai Concentrating Solar Power Investment Co., Ltd.) has contracted IDOM to develop the basic engineering and detailed engineering for the thermal energy storage system of the aforementioned CSP plant, with parabolic trough technology and 50 MW of power. This image below is an infographic of the 3D model used in the design of the installation.

For the Dunhuang plant project (Promoter: Lanzhou Dacheng Technology Company – LZDCTC), located in the province of the same name, the turnkey contractor North West Electric Power Design Institute (NWEPDI) has contracted IDOM to develop the basic engineering for the design of the molten salt system, the thermal storage system, and the steam generation system. This is the project of a solar thermal contracting plant with linear Fresnel technology and a power of 10 MW in a first phase.

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