Industrial Heat

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Most of the industrial processes need heat at some step, and there is a continuous fight to try to reduce the energy needed to complete the process as well as to reduce the temperature needed. I.e. in a painting process, that’s needed to cook the applied paint at temperatures around 200ºC, but these temperatures have been reduced in the last years as far as the paint manufacturers have investigated in paints that require lower cooking temperatures that would lead in a saving for their costumers.

The process can be classified as follow:

• Low temperature: between 30 and 65ºC
• Medium temperature: between 65 and 150ºC
• Medium-high temperature: between 150 and 200ºCHigh temperature: more than 200ºC

In those industrial applications that need temperatures higher than 120ºC, the SRB’s UHV collector has a competitive advantage over the rest of thermal collectors in the market, as with only a concentation factor of 2,1:1 with its configuration of cylindrical reflectors, it achieves stagnation temperatures higher than 420ºC. This allows to achieve working temperatures of around 200ºC with good performance, where other collectors without vacuum had already gone to stagnation, and vacuum tube collectors has too bad performance. Additionally, at radiations  lower than 1000W/m2, the vacuum tube collectors may already gone to stagnation.

Ongoing Projects

0. Heat of tar tanks at 190ºC, that are also used as thermal storage to be used for other heating needs of the company - Switzerland.
0. Heat for a paint oven (175ºC) for a company of the automotive industry – Spain.
0. Heat for plastic injection molds (190ºC) – Spain.
0. Heat for textile forming presses (190ºC) - Spain.

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