CSPPLAZA Photothermal Power Generation Network reported: For a long time, due to the delay in breaking the domestic photothermal market, the photothermal market has shown an overall situation, which has led domestic manufacturers to falter due to the lack of existing performance support when participating in the international photothermal market competition.

But even so, some domestic manufacturers have taken the lead in opening up the situation in the international photothermal market, successfully exporting China's photothermal technology and engineering capabilities and China's photothermal products overseas, winning attention and reputation for China's photothermal in the international market.

This paper makes an inventory of Chinese enterprises that actively layout overseas photothermal power generation market from the perspective of EPC and engineering consulting services and equipment supply.

• EPC and engineering consulting services ·

As there are very few cases of participating in commercial photothermal power stations, Chinese enterprises have relatively little experience in overall system design, integration and power station construction and operation. A few enterprises represented by Shandong Electric Power Construction Third Engineering Company (SEPCO III) are testing EPC of overseas photothermal power generation projects in cooperation with overseas manufacturers and have made some progress.

1, Shandong Electric Power Construction Third Engineering Company.

The consortium formed by SEPCO III and Sener of Spain undertook the EPC of Morocco's Noor2 trough solar thermal power station and Noor3 tower solar thermal power station with installed capacity of 200MW and 150MW respectively. SEPCO III is responsible for the civil construction, conventional island supply, heat storage system and peripheral system equipment supply and installation of the project.

At present, with the participation of SEPCO III, the Noor2 and Noor3 projects are progressing steadily and are expected to be completed in the second half of this year and next year respectively.

In addition to the Noor2 and Noor3 projects, SEPCO III has also set up a consortium with Engie of France to bid for the first phase of the 200MW tower solar thermal power generation project in MohammadBinRashidAlMaktoum Solar Park to be developed by Dubai Water and Electricity Authority (Dewa) and passed the prequalification. The final winning bidder will be announced in the second half of this year.

2, the first flight energy-saving thermal technology Co., Ltd.

The consortium formed by Shouhang Energy-saving Photothermal Technology Co., Ltd. and Saudi Alfanar Company has also previously bid for the first phase of the 200MW tower photothermal power generation project in MohammadBinRashidAlMaktoum Solar Park to be developed by Dubai Water and Electricity Authority (Dewa) and passed the prequalification. The final winning bidder will be announced in the second half of this year.

3Northwest Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd.

Northwest Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd. participated in the design of the heat absorption tower of Noor3 tower solar thermal power station in Morocco. In the design process of the construction drawing of the heat absorption tower of the project, the "parametric processing software based on ACI307-08 running on ANSYS" compiled by Northwest Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd. is used for calculation input and structural analysis, which effectively improves the design efficiency.

· Equipment supply ·

The photothermal power generation system is relatively complex and involves a long industrial chain. After years of technical research and accumulation, China has basically been able to produce all the key and main equipment of the photothermal power generation system, and the overall industrial chain has been initially formed. In particular, key equipment such as reflectors and collector tubes have already met the conditions for commercial production, and at the same time, a number of equipment suppliers with certain technical and production capabilities have been cultivated, some enterprises are also actively exploring overseas markets in the past when China's solar thermal market has been slow to open the curtain.

At the same time, some of the traditional equipment manufacturers involved in the solar thermal power generation industry have gradually captured some market opportunities in overseas solar thermal power generation projects.

1, Huiyin Group (collector tube supplier)

In 2013, Huiyin Group successfully supplied Areva with an exclusive 125MW installed capacity of Reliance Fresnel Photothermal Power Generation Project in India. Subsequently, Huiyin Group cooperated with Areva to participate in a 5MW TEP Photothermal Thermal Power Expansion Project in the United States. In addition, the 33MW Stillwater photothermal geothermal hybrid power station installed by Skyfuel Company of the United States also adopted the products of Huiyin Group. At the same time, Huiyin also participated in the construction of several large commercial photothermal power stations in Spain and supplied heat collecting tubes to the Novatec molten salt Fresnel project in Germany in 2015. From the end of 2015 to the beginning of 2016, Huiyin Group has won orders for the supply of heat collecting tubes for four overseas commercial photothermal projects, all of which include nearly 10,000 vacuum heat collecting tubes and about 100000 meters of coated steel pipes.

2, Changzhou Longteng Photothermal Technology Co., Ltd. (collector tube supplier)

Changzhou Longteng has established a large-scale production line of high-performance heat collection tubes that meets the international photothermal power generation market standards. On December 29, 2015, Changzhou Longteng officially delivered the first batch of 2055 high-temperature vacuum heat collecting tubes supplied to a 50MW commercial trough power station in the international market, which is also a major breakthrough in the core components of China's solar thermal power generation. In November 2016, the National Power Corporation of India (NTPC) was responsible for the development of the country's first photothermal-coal-fired hybrid power generation project, all vacuum collector tube orders were determined to be supplied by Changzhou Longteng.

3. Zhonghaiyang Energy Group Co., Ltd. (mirror supplier)

Chengdu Zen Solar, a subsidiary of Zhonghai Yang Energy Group Co., Ltd., is a professional manufacturer of reflectors. At present, it has replaced some reflectors for SEGS Photothermal Power Station in the United States and supplied reflectors for a solar thermal utilization project in India. At the same time, it has provided test samples for a German company. Its reflector products have been recognized by Sener, Cobra, TSK and other international customers and have been listed in the owner's supplier library.

4. Lanzhou Dacheng Technology Co., Ltd. (collector tube supplier)

On February 8, 2017, Lanzhou Dacheng exported HCE90 large-diameter vacuum heat collection tubes (metal inner tube diameter 90mm) to the U.S. market successfully passed the customer's on-site acceptance, and on February 10, all the heat collection tubes were loaded and delivered for shipment. Lanzhou Dacheng HCE90 collector tube was recommended by the United States Renewable Energy Laboratory. This batch of exported large-diameter collector tube products will be used in California solar energy projects.

5, Tianruixing Light Thermal Technology Co., Ltd. (collector tube supplier)

In November 2015, Tianruixing signed a product purchase contract with OHL, Spain's largest construction company. According to this contract, the medium and high temperature solar collector tube developed by Tianruixing company based on aerospace technology will be applied to the FuturoSolar project carried out by OHL in cooperation with the Polytechnic University of Madrid. In addition, Tianruixing also provides products to experimental projects in Egypt, India and Australia.

6. Zhejiang Daming Glass Co., Ltd. (mirror supplier)

Zhejiang Daming Glass Co., Ltd. has a solar flat mirror production line with an annual production capacity of 4.5 million square meters (which can supply about 400MW solar thermal power station) and a trough reflector production line with an annual production capacity of 3.6 million square meters (which can supply about 300MW trough power station). After years of technical accumulation and overseas market cultivation, he has provided planar and trough solar reflector products for many overseas projects such as the 125 MWReliance1 Fresnel project of Reliance Power in India, the trough experimental circuit of PSA platform in Spain, and the FPL-SEGS trough project in the United States, and has reached cooperation with CSP projects in the United States, North Africa, the Middle East, India and other places.

7. Dongfang Honghai New Energy Development Co., Ltd. (Stirling engine and disc-type photothermal power generation system)

On June 24, 2014, the first batch of 6 Stirling engines of 180 25kW solar Stirling generator sets supplied to Europe by Dalian Honghai New Energy Development Co., Ltd., the predecessor of Dongfang Honghai New Energy Development Co., Ltd., went off the production line smoothly. Prior to this, Dalian Honghai and Swedish Cleanergy Company jointly developed a dish-type solar thermal power generation project with an installed capacity of 10KW in Seville, Spain. In 2015, the company received another order for a dish Stirling photothermal power generation project in Thailand, with a total scale of 10.5MW and a total of 420 25KW dish Stirling machines to be installed. This is also the first time that a Chinese dish Stirling manufacturer has received an order for an overseas commercial photothermal power generation project.

8. Dongfang Electric Group Dongfang Boiler Co., Ltd. (key equipment supplier)

On July 21, 2016, Dongfang Boiler Co., Ltd. and TSK Company of Spain signed a contract for the supply of equipment for the overflow tank and expansion tank of the Kuwait SHAGAYA50MW Solar Project. This is the company's first self-export, self-designed (using ASME code) solar container equipment.

9. Shandong Jirong Thermal Technology Co., Ltd. (key equipment supplier)

Shandong Jirong Thermal Technology Co., Ltd. won the contract for the supply of Morocco's NOOR2 & 3 deaerator, high pressure heater, low pressure heater and pressure tank, and all of them were successfully accepted and delivered in 2016.

10. Shandong Ogilvy Environment Co., Ltd. (demineralized water system)

In 2016, Shandong Ogilvy Environment Co., Ltd. successfully passed the supervision and acceptance of the demineralized water system of the Noor project in Morocco.

11. Delta Group (Japanese solution)

On February 25, 2016, Delta Group from Taiwan, China announced that it had successfully provided a solution for the Crescent Dunes Solar Project (CrescentDunesSolarEnergyProject), the world's largest molten salt energy storage concentrating solar power plant located in Nevada, USA, SolarReserve by large solar developers.

At present, domestic manufacturers are still facing performance shortcomings in overseas market competition, and the outbreak of the domestic photothermal demonstration project market has brought the first wave of market opportunities for related manufacturers in the industrial chain. Under the cultivation of the market, related manufacturers will rapidly Develop and mature, laying the foundation for the future large-scale overseas photothermal market. It is expected that after 2018, Chinese companies will gain more in the international solar thermal power generation market and are expected to become the protagonists in the international market! http://www.jirong-thermal.com/