IBM and AairLight Energy are working on a complex technology HCPVT, which is a desalination plant, solar panels and cooler

Companies IBM and AairLight Energy are working on a new technology HCPVT , which serves as the basis for solar energy. This system uses IBM's achievements in the field of refrigeration and water purification technologies and AairLight Energy in the field of solar energy.

The result is the development of a common dish area of ​​approximately 40 square meters, covered with mirrors 36 elliptical shape. Mirrors are made from plastic film having a thickness of only 0, 2 millimeters. Solar rays are concentrated on the system with liquid cooling tanks, each tank comprises a receiver chip area of ​​approximately one square centimeter.

performance of each of the chip - 57 watts of power for a sunny day. The overall performance of the system, a single antenna - 2 kW of electric power plus about 20 kW of heat energy.

The cooling system is quite complicated, and how it works, according to developers, are similar to those of the circulatory system of the person. Miniature purified water pipe carried around the receiver by removing excess heat. When this is heated to a temperature of 85-90 degrees Celsius, which is sufficient for normal operation of the chip. Without such a cooling system was heated up to 1500 degrees, which would lead to the destruction of the system.

According to lead author of the study Bruno Michel, such a system can be set not only for energy production, but also for water desalination, as well as for air cooling. Contaminated water mineral salts passes through the heating tube, and then purified in a distillation system with a permeable membrane.

With regard to cooling, such an embodiment is possible, provided the transmission of heat through the exhaust heat exchanger to an evaporator and a condenser where water is used as coolant.

Performance distiller quite high: 40 liters of purified drinking water per square meter per day receiver. If you create such receivers "farm", it is possible to supply drinking water to a small town. The average life span of such a system is about 60 years, with the condition in time of preventive work (cleaning and replacement of the film, mirrors, inspection and repair of the whole structure).

The first system of this type will appear in a few years (206-2017 per year), as desalination system needs final finishing.



Source: habrahabr.ru/company/ibm/blog/241441/