Our solar collectors are a series of reflectors paired with evacuated tube receivers. Sunlight which hits the reflectors is redirected onto the receiver tubes. A selectively coated fin inside the receiver tube absorbs the concentrated sunlight and heats up. A heat transfer fluid (pressurized water) is circulated through the solar receiver tubes to carry away this heat so it can be injected into your process via a heat exchanger. Simple!
What makes the technology unique is our use of nonimaging optics which allow our collector technologies to concentrate sunlight year-round from a stationary position. This allows us to generate high temperatures (up to 350 F) from a static panel.
Like a PV panel, but for hot water, steam, or process heat.
Our patented solar thermal technologies were developed through multiple grants and awards at the University of California, Merced.
We combine the simplicity of non-tracking systems with the high temperatures and high efficiencies of active-tracking systems.
