Mohamed Darwish, Ashraf Hassan, Rabi Mohtar
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Doha, Qatar.
DOI: 10.4236/epe.2013.53024   PDF    HTML     6,051 Downloads   9,192 Views   Citations

Abstract

The utility solar power plants were reviewed and classified by two basic groups: direct thermal concentrating solar power (CSP) and photovoltaic (PV). CSP as Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) of 100 MW solar power plants (SPP) is suggested and suitable to provide solar thermal power for Qatar. Although, LFC had enough experience for small projects, it is still need to work in large scale plant such as 100 MW and couple with multi effect distillation (MED) to confirm costs.

Keywords

Concentrated Solar Power; Linear Fresnel Collector; Desalination

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The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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