Research Status and Development Trend of Concentrating Solar Power

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to reveal the technological status and development trend of concentrating solar power (CSP), which is a kind of technology that converts solar radiation heat energy to electric energy. This paper researches the topic discovery and clustering methods. Based on the Web of Science database, using bibliometric methods, social network and information visualization technology to conduct topic discovery and clustering research, in order to reveal the development trend of the technical field of solar thermal power generation, and provide reference for related technology research and hot spot tracking. The results showed that the countries with high research outputs have formed closer cooperative relations. The hotspot technologies of CSP are mainly involved in the eigh fields: the concentrated field, the receiver of the power tower, the evacuated tube solar collector, the performance of heat transfer and thermal energy storage, molten salt thermal energy storage material, thermal performance analysis of CSP, modelling and simulation in CSP and CSP power systems and equipment.