• Renewable Energy Solutions

Solar thermal technology has come a long way in the past ten years, finally being a better commercial option than fossil fuel in many applications.

With a track record as the most bankable solar technology due to its high operational reliability, Parabolic Trough Collectors (PTC) were able to secure a credible position amongst investors and lenders as the most stable and efficient form of generating sustainable energy.

However, many limitations on material availability, and engineering innovation prevented the technology from being able to penetrate certain industries. Whether heat transfer mediums, or thermal storage vessels; different industries have specific thermal cycles that are required to operate efficiently, and with the thermal properties of parabolic technology in the past being limited below 300°C not many industries would be able to benefit from the technologies capabilities.

Advancing decarbonization through CSP technology to meet UAE’s net zero objectives.

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Driving UAE’s industrialization through local manufacturing for a cleaner energy mix.

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Today, the advances in material science and engineering design have enabled Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology to expand the list of industries that can benefit from its capabilities as operating temperatures are approaching 800°C.

Additionally, engineering design has enabled parabolic troughs to maintain those temperatures and overcome the inherent structural limitations of the old engineering designs. Where the traditional parabolic troughs could not reach apertures above 6m due to the potential wind loads which could deform or uproot the trough collector.

Austria-based Solabolic’s state-of-the-art patented innovation enabled the technology to make the leap into 12m aperture collectors, thereby unlocking never before realized potential for CSP.

Al Masaood Energy, being a major player in the energy sector became a strategic partner for Solabolic in the GCC region to manufacture, and assemble the technology. Believing in the technologies capability in delivering a zero-carbon alternative for many fossil fuel-dependent industrial, and utility scale processes, ranging from sea water desalination, hydrogen production, and oil refining.

Each application has a unique thermal cycle profile that Solabolic’s technology can supply uninterrupted energy to power. Sea water desalination happens at 90°C within vacuum powered multi-effect distillation process.

Hydrogen production can happen with steam turbines that generate power from 200°C steam, and the low grade steam coming out of the turbine can be used to preheat Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells to allow for the most efficient electrolysis to happen at below 40KW per kg of hydrogen.

Oil refining demands 400°C heating of crude in order to distillate crude oil, and produce the wide range of fuels used globally.

The last time CSP was considered as a solution to replace natural gas to process crude oil was in the 1980’s and it was not able to because the thermal oils at the time were not capable of transferring heat at temperatures above 250°C, and the biggest aperture reached was 4m wide.

Today, with thermal oils allowing 450C temperature operations, and molten sodium, and salts allowing 800°C temperature transfers, when integrated with Solabolic’s PTC, many previously impossible applications become more feasible than ever.

As the world aims to reach 50% decarbonization by 2030, industrial heat has no better answer than CSP due to the high efficiency in converting sunlight to thermal energy.

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