In the morning of February 25, the National Alliance for Solar Thermal Energy (NAFSTE) organized and held the “Seminar on generic technology of trough-type evacuated tube collectors and 2017 visits to NAFSTE members” at CAMDA New Energy Equipment Co., Ltd. More than 60 persons attended this event, including NAFSTE representative members such as China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute, General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals, Beijing TRX Solar Thermal Technology Co., Ltd., Institute of Electrical Engineering of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Supcon Technology Co., Ltd., Inner Mongolia Electric Power Survey & Design Institute Co., Ltd, Hubei Shouneng Vacuum Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing TUS-CLEAN Energy Co., Ltd., and scholars and experts, enterprise representatives and media representatives in the solar thermal energy generation sector, including such companies as Thermal Focus (Beijing) New Energy Technology Co., Ltd, Northwest Electric Power Design Institute, North China Power Design Institute, Northeast China Power Design Institute, Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute, Hebei Electric Power Design & Research Institute, SINOTEC Shanxi Company, Zhongnan Engineering Corporation Limited, Emerson China, Wuhan Kaidi Engineering Technology Research Institute, Elion Smart Energy, Shanxi Lanhua Daning Power Generation Co., Ltd., Shanxi Yunda Machinery Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Jinjiang Group, Shaanxi Baoguang Vacuum Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Qingyu Chenghe Investment Management Co., Ltd., Guangdong Technology Media Center, and China Power Media Group. The meeting was highly supported by Thermal Focus (Beijing) New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. The seminar was chaired by Du Fengli, Deputy Secretary-General of NAFSTE; Shen Jianshan, Chairman of CAMDA New Energy, and Yi Yuechun, President of NAFSTE, delivered speeches at the conference.
In the afternoon, the seminar also held exchange and discussion on the mirror field tracking and control technology of the trough solar thermal power plant, and visited the 1MW trough-type demonstration project of CAMDA New Energy. NAFSTE Secretariat will sort out additional technical exchange information of the seminar for the reference of the insiders.
The “Seminar on mirror field tracking and control technology of the trough-type solar thermal power plant” was held simultaneously. Thermal Focus (Beijing) New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. released its dedicated tracking and control system with proprietary intellectual property rights for trough-type high-temperature molten salt thermal collectors for solar thermal electric power generation. (Report by Dong Qingfeng)