Kuraymat
Kuraymat is an integrated solar combined cycle system in Egypt, located roughly 100 kilometers south of Cairo. The hybrid power plant with a capacity of 150 MW uses both natural gas and solar energy to generate electricity. The plant can be operated round the clock and will serve 500,000 households with electricity after completion.
The solar field for Egypt's first modern solar thermal large-scale facility was completed in December 2010. It consists of parabolic trough collectors with an overall surface area of 130,000 m².
The solar technology for this reference project has been provided by Flagsol GmbH. Flagsol designed the solar field, delivered the control for the solar field and was responsible for supplying important key components, primarily the parabolic mirrors and absorber pipes. The solar field was built and is being put into operation in cooperation with the Egyptian company Orascom Construction Industries. The collectors, measuring six meters high, were installed in the solar field in rows of parabolic trough mirrors several hundreds of meters long. All 2,000 collectors in the solar field, each six meters high, are automatically directed towards the position of the sun.
The Kuraymat site benefits from more than 2,400 kilowatt hours of solar irradiation per square meter and year on average. The solar irradiation, which is channeled to parabolic-shaped mirrors, is reflected onto an absorber pipe in the focal line of the collector. The vacuum-isolated absorber pipes contain a circulating heat transfer fluid, which is heated up to 300-400 degrees through the concentrated sunlight. The heat transfer fluid is then pumped into the central power block and the thermal energy coming from the solar field is converted into electrical energy.
Here you can read the news of 23 December 2010
Here you can read the personal report of Klaas Rühmann, Project Manager Kuraymat
