SOLAR POWER PLANT Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: solar-power engineering; solar power installations for parallel running with heat sources for domestic and industrial applications. SUBSTANCE: plant has primary spherical concentrators; secondary reflectors made in the form of bodies of revolution about their symmetry axis, their focus being common with that of concentrators and their rays, directed to common heat source; supports; monorails; rocking devices, and numeric-control drives; novelty is that concentrators are trimmed over perimeter to form squares and disposed in heating area over earth surface in relatively perpendicular manner of columns and lines, monorails are mounted on top of supports and oriented towards lines; supports are positioned on heating surface in a few rows and their height is chosen to be approximately equal to radius of concentrator spheres; rocking devices are placed on top of monorails and their reflectors and thermal receptor have two degrees of freedom; secondary reflectors and thermal receptor are mounted in rocking devices along concentrator columns; secondary reflectors are disposed on rods in focal area of concentrators and spaced apart through distance equal to concentrator width; rods are integrated on ends by means of bars and also spaced apart through distance equal to concentrator width; thermal receptor is mounted on center line of set of rods beyond focal area of concentrators and is rigidly fixed to bars; it has boiler as well as hot and cold water pipes; entire rigid system of secondary reflectors and thermal receptor is joined by means of moving and return cables with numeric- control drives for moving along columns and lines. EFFECT: utmost utilization of sun heat. 1 dwg