SOLAR POWER STATION Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: solar power engineering. SUBSTANCE: in compliance with first version solar power station has immobile spherical concentrator 1 tilted at angle equal to latitude of point and circuit generating electric power including main and additional heat exchangers 3 and turbine with electric generators. Heat exchangers are mounted in area of quasi-focus of concentrator on truss 14 rotating about center of curvature of concentrator. Circuit generating electric power present outdoor type, turbine with electric generator is mounted in center of sphere or on top of bearing tower 12 or on the ground by base of tower. Turbine is coupled to heat exchanger with flexible or joint pipe-line. Electric generator is coupled to turbine by means of cardan shaft. Immobile spherical concentrator is manufactured in the form of cutting-out from hemisphere with aperture angle of 150 deg in plane of local meridian. Curvilinear plane surface or envelope of spiral pipe-line of heat exchanger are perpendicular in each point to rays reflected from spherical mirror and are specified by parametric equation. Optical telescope is mounted on top of rotating truss and receiving antenna-radiator is positioned on lower end of it which makes it possible to use solar power station during free time (for instance, at night) as optical or radio telescope. The other version of solar power station uses completely immobile units and mobile secondary mirror specifies profile of reflector. EFFECT: expanded functional capabilities, simplified design. 7 cl, 9 dwg