The `Solar Jewel` in Spain... Optimum utilization of solar energy!

2013-09-01 2013-09-01T12:14:40Z
سنان خلف
سنان خلف
محرر أخبار جوية- قسم التواصل الاجتماعي

ArabiaWeather.com - Sinan Khalaf - Among the agricultural fields in the vicinity of the Spanish city of Seville, strange towers appear, reaching a height of about forty floors, surrounded by huge numbers of mirrors that reflect the sun's rays towards the towers that use these rays to generate solar energy .

The talk here is about the Al-Jawhara solar power generation station, which contains a 2,600-mirror cell that has been arranged and distributed according to engineering standards and methods on an area of 185 hectares of agricultural land. Its temperature reaches 900 degrees Celsius, which causes the water surrounding the salt tanks to boil, creating large amounts of water vapor that rotates the steam turbines.

This station is the first of its kind capable of generating solar energy during the night, as the molten salt loses its temperature gradually in the evening hours, but it remains high, reaching in some cases up to 500 degrees Celsius, which works on the continuation of the boiling of water and the rise of steam, and thus the continuation of the work of the turbines in the hours of the night .

The station is capable of producing 110 kilowatts of electricity per hour, enough to cover the electricity needs of 25,000 homes.

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.
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