NANOGEN Power Systems’ NanoCSP™ line of modular and totally portable Solar Power Plants bring the economics and efficiency of large scale CSP solar systems to the 250 kW to 10 MW marketplace.
NANOGEN’s portable solar power plants are available in multiples of 250 kW up to 1 MW. The entire power plant is self-contained and packaged in steel cargo containers which can be shipped worldwide by sea, barge, truck, or rail. Upon arrival the containers are aligned with the sun, based on latitude, using a surveyors transit. Within 48 hours, two workers can have the power plant operational.
The company has reduced the cost of the solar collector components by more than 60% with operating and maintenance fees the lowest in the industry. The solar troughs heat a proprietary thermal liquid which powers the ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) engine; in the ORC closed combustion system, no VOC’s are released. The ORC engines turn 250 kW to 10 MW generators. NANOGEN then uses a proprietary TES (Thermal Energy Storage) tank to store the heated thermal fluid at a temperature sufficient to power the gen-set, for up to 16 hours, after the sun has set.
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