Planning and building the first ultimate trough collector field in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

After successful demonstration of the Ultimate Trough Technology within the test loop in California [1], the Ultimate Trough collector was selected by a Spanish-Saudi Arabic consortium for the first commercial project in Duba. Figure 1 represents a picture of the DUBA Green Power Plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), nearly completed as of February 2018. As the plant location is close to the border of the Red Sea, special engineering efforts had to be performed on possible corrosion issues and high wind loads. Solutions for this and further particularities in the Ultimate Trough collector design for the project are presented in this article.After successful demonstration of the Ultimate Trough Technology within the test loop in California [1], the Ultimate Trough collector was selected by a Spanish-Saudi Arabic consortium for the first commercial project in Duba. Figure 1 represents a picture of the DUBA Green Power Plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), nearly completed as of February 2018. As the plant location is close to the border of the Red Sea, special engineering efforts had to be performed on possible corrosion issues and high wind loads. Solutions for this and further particularities in the Ultimate Trough collector design for the project are presented in this article.