Solar thermal technology has been growing in demand for the last two decades. Sustainable solutions to leveraging Solar power and utilizing it efficiently have been one of the biggest aims across various industries. Clean energy has been the need of the hour. Solar units capture the sun’s heat energy through meticulously designed technology and use it for heating purposes and for the production of electricity. They widely differ from the photovoltaic devices which use the sun’s radiation to generate electricity.

A Solar thermal system can be distributed into two categories- active or passive.

Passive & Active Solar Thermal Systems

A passive system requires no equipment to absorb the heat when the heat builds up, whereas, an active system requires a certain medium to absorb the heat and collect solar radiation for storage.

For instance, Solar Thermal power plants can be identified as active systems, wherein the concentrating solar thermal technologies work to heat water or other thermic fluids through mirrors and lenses by concentrating the obtained solar energy from a large surface to a smaller area. The mirrors reflect and concentrate the sunlight, collecting that solar energy via receivers and finally converting it into heat energy. A generator is then used to produce electricity from this heat energy.

Sunlight as a source is infinite, but it can still be an issue to use solar thermal units. For instance, sunlight is not a concentrated source of energy, therefore, a colossal amount of area is required to capture sunlight and generate a reasonable amount of energy, which can cause land-use issues amongst other things. Furthermore, the availability of sunlight completely depends on the location, weather conditions, and many other factors

Concentrated solar thermal technologies usually are located in areal like far-off deserts and due to this reason, the transmission of electricity over these long distances becomes a costly process which can cause losses during distribution.

HMX from ATE offers a range of solar thermal technologies and applications that can be utilized in industries and sectors such as educational, religious, hospitality, retail, engineering, automotive, chemical process, food processing, pulp and paper, textiles, and more. Contact us today to install a suitable solar thermal unit in your facility and reap the advantages of cheap, abundant, and eco-friendly electricity.