Global Energy is currently seeking industry contacts for solar concentrator, parabolic or flat plate collectors.

If you have any solar thermal collectors - please contact me.

If you would like to view solar parabolic concentrators, please click here.

In an effort to boost interest in solar thermal applications in concert with our ORC turbines, we are now considering licensing or building solar collectors.

Solar Thermal Parabolic Collector: Licensing Available - please contact me. This basic design should allow you to produce very efficient collectors for a production cost at or below $160.00 per collector panel.  Approximate heat output is around 7,200 btu / hr per panel and a temperature between 90 - 150 deg C (depending on flow rate). This system is best for thermal oil to ORC and with higher temps, you can use the exiting thermal oil from the ORC to run a Yazaki liquid fired chiller.  A Infinity Turbine connected to this system will need about 30,000 btu / kWe, or about 4-5 panels.  If production costs are at $160.00 per panel, the total solar thermal panel cost is about $800 per produced kilowatt electricity, plus the heat value of the exiting heat to run a chiller.  A 30 kilowatt per hour system would be about $60,000 for the ORC system and $25,000 for the solar thermal panels.  The total is about $3,000 per produced kWe, which is currently lower than PV systems.

Solar Thermal Flat Plate Collector:

The Infinity Turbine Solar Module is a hexagonal modular block that can be interconnected for low temperature water, or high temperature thermal oil.

The system can be vacuum sealed using a bike pump, so it is very suitable for remote installations.

The multifunction module can also be used in structures, and along with the option triangle module, you can form a dome with the modules, using the structure as a large solar array.

In-line Pipe ORC array based distributed energy production:  We're currently developing a 500-1,000 watt in-line organic Rankine cycle Infinity Turbine which can be placed within the solar module, making it a self-sufficient power producer.  With this option, the thermal liquid is fully self-contained and the only output will be electrical wire.  As an array, you simply connect the panels together (wired in series or parallel) to make a larger powerplant.