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Background and status of CSP

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In Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants, mirrors focus sunlight to generate heat and steam, producing electricity through a conventional thermodynamic cycle. Unlike solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, which utilize both direct and diffuse sunlight, CSP utilizes only the direct component known as Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI). CSP plants can integrate a heat storage system, allowing for electricity generation even during cloudy weather or after sunset. Thermal storage substantially enhances the capacity factor and dispatchability of CSP in comparison to PV and wind power. It is possible to classify CSP systems according to the mechanism by which the solar collectors concentrate solar irradiation: either “linear concentrating” or “point concentrating” varieties. Most existing systems use linear concentrating systems called parabolic trough collectors. Solar towers, sometimes also known as power towers, are the most widely deployed point concentrating CSP technology, but represented only ...
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CSP and AB InBev

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Ab InBev is a multinational brewing company located in Leuven Belgium. Currently they are based in more than 50 countries with about 169,000 employees. They sell more than 500 brands of beer in 100+ countries. The estimated production can be divided in five regions as seen in the figure above and amounts to 581,678,000 hectoliters in 2021 and in 2022 to 595,133,000 hectoliters. These production numbers are estimated on the sales which amounted to these totals. For these sales a gross profit of respectively 2021 and 2022 amounted to 31,207 million US dollar and 31,481 million US dollar. AB InBev has set sustainability goals for the year 2025 to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. These goals are as follows: By 2025, 100% of our direct farmers will be skilled, connected, and financially empowered. By 2025, 100% of our communities in high-stress areas will have measurably improved water availability and quality. 100% of our product will be in packaging that is re...
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  Research question: How can AB InBev implement Concentrated Solar Power for generating process heat used in production? What? What Technology? (See video for suggestions). What Context? What are the relevant technical issues/specifications for this technology? Small scale concentrated solar power in a parabolic trough layout, used for generating process heat for industry. In our case this will be aimed at AB InBev, the biggest brewery in the world. Technical issues and challenges are mostly related to geography and scalability. Energy storage is also a challenge Why? Why choose this question? Why interested? What do you already know? What do you not know and want to find out? Your goal: which result do you expect? Think as an Industrial Engineer! It is an upcoming technology that reduces carbon emissions for generating process heat. It also has a short time for ROI and a modular formfactor....
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