Vacuum Process Engineering Inc. has announced a supply partnership with the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Sandia National Laboratories for designing and fabricating heat exchangers for a next generation concentrating solar-thermal (CSP) plant.
The DOE recently announced a Phase III, $25m award to Sandia to build, test and demonstrate a CSP plant at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Sacramento, California-based VPE designed and fabricated the subscale prototype heat exchanger, as well as designing the primary heat exchangers for both a 1 MWth and 200 MWth CSP plant.
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