Effective technology: solar ORC will ensure that the heating, electricity and hot water

New efficient technologies gain the African continent. Non-profit organization STG International is going to do far from civilization African clinics and schools kom Autonomous, thanks to the new hybrid solar system for heat production and energy. Unique system combines the latest "green" technology to provide buildings with electricity, hot water and heating, and may also provide air conditioning facilities.





The heart of the system is a very efficient type of cooling cycle, instead of using cooling gases for reducing high temperature uses it to generate electricity in the management of the overall compressor. This is a unique solution to do doubles and even triples the power of a small African clinic, providing significant fuel savings.





The system is designed so that it can be build with the use of readily available materials and technologies which are in Africa. Its inventors, Dr. Matthew Orosz and Amy Mueller, intend to install at least five such systems in order to test the viability of the project. Parabolic capacity heat pipe filled with coolers, and hot gases pass into a steam turbine for low-boiling low-temperature heat transfer fluids (ORC), which is the basis of the compressor that starts the generator.





Solar ORC replaces solar electric batteries and diesel engines to produce electricity and allows to provide the population with hot water and to heat their homes. Because to use such efficient technology to provide electricity or hot water, much cheaper and less complicated, the team hopes that the cost of their system in the future will be much lower. The first installation in a medical clinic in the Berea district (Lesotho), where the temperatures can be very low, will benefit greatly. The system will provide 18-24 kWh of energy and 200-300 gallons of hot water daily.

Such efficient technology, as has already been proven effective, but the question remains about their long-term reliability. Many such systems were expensive and sometimes unreliable — if you RichEdit useless one component stops working the whole system. If the solar ORC would be viable, it will be new and profitable.

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