Resistencias Tope at CSP ATACAMA I solar thermal plant

22-06-2015

Resistencias Tope will participate in the construction of the first solar thermal plant in South America

The plant to be built in the Atacama Desert (Chile), is a plant with tower thermo solar technology which includes 10,600 heliostats that follow the sun in two axes concentrating solar radiation in a point on the top part of the tower. It is in the receptor where the heat is transferred to the molten salts In turn, these molten salts transfer the heat – by way of a heat exchanger – to a watercourse in order to generate overheated and reheated steam, which in turn feeds into a turbine capable of producing approximately 110 MW.

The electrical heating equipment designed and developed by Resistencias Tope is used in various processes within the solar thermal plant. For example, the salts are normally heated by solar energy, but during the start-up of the plant and at possible stops of it, our immersion heaters for salts are responsible for preventing the solidification of this heat transmitting fluid, keeping it always above 260ºC.