Company Vision:
To develop highly innovative and profitable large scale renewable energy projects for the Global energy market, specifically the United States, Australia and China.
Company Background:
EnviroMission is the exclusive global licensee (excluding China) of SolarMission Technologies, Inc for the development and marketing of breakthrough Solar Tower updraft technology and plans to commercialize the first of two planned Solar Tower power stations in the United Sates. A single 200MW (installed capacity) power station development will produce enough renewable energy to provide power to more than 100,000 typical American households or remove the eqivalent of 220,000 motor vehicles from the roads.
What is a Solar Tower:
A Solar Tower power plant- sometimes referred to as a "Solar Chimney" or "Solar Updraft Tower" is a Solar Thermal Power Plant that combines the use of a solar air collector (canopy) and a central updraft tower to generate a solar induced convective flow which drives pressure staged turbines to generate electricity.
How it Works:
The Technology is made up of three components.
The Tower.
The Tower is the thermal engine of the Solar Tower technology. In it, heat is transformed into mechanical energy. The updraft inside the tower, produced by the rising lighter, hot air, is essential for this. The higher the Tower, the greater the velocity of the column of air is and the stronger the updraft. Therefore, a high-capacity power plant should have the highest Tower possible.
The Canopy
The canopy converts a large percentage of the insolation into heat, which in turn, heats the air trapped under the canopy roof or is stored in the ground soil thermal storage system. One of the main objectives of the canopy is to lose as little heat as possible into the ambient.
The Turbines
The Turbines transform the energy from the heat and pressure of the air into mechanical energy and the generator converts it into electricity. They work like the well known Kaplan Turbines used in hydro-electric power plants.
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