From hot to cold - solar researchers test new silicon oil under power plant conditions

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From hot to cold - solar researchers test new silicon oil under power plant conditions


Solar thermal power plants play an important role for the energy transition, especially in regions of the world with a significant number of sun hours. When combined with a heat storage system they have the capacity to deliver electricity even after sunset. A consortium of researchers and industrial enterprises is currently working under the auspices of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) to increase the efficiency of solar parabolic trough power plants by improving the heat-carrier oils used in the absorber pipes. The viability of a newly developed silicon oil by Wacker Chemie AG is now being tested at temperatures of up to 425 degrees Celsius.


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