A brief introduction is given below. For detailed technical information, please refer to the corresponding Turkish pages in this site.

1. LOW TEMPERATURE SYSTEMS

Flat plate Solar Collectors:

These systems are one of the most common applications of solar energy. They are mostly used in domestic water heating. The installed area in the world is estimated to exceed 30 million m².

Evacuated Tube Solar collectors:

Similar to the flat plate collectors, these systems are made of evacuated tubes and reaches to a higher temperatures (100-120°C).

Solar Ponds:

These systems are mostly experimantal applications. The systems is based on the temperature difference in a pool, provided by  salt concentration in the pool. Can be use directly as heat or in electricity generation by Rankin cycle.

Solar Chimneys:

The air in a solar hated building is directed to a long solar chimney. Air movement in the chimney is converted to the electricity by turbines in the chimney. Ths is also an experimental application.

Water Desalination Systems:

Water in a shallow pool is evaparoted towards a transparent cover.

Solar Architecture:

Heating, cooling or lighting of the building is achieved by using the structure of the building and/or with active solar energy systems.

Greenhouses and Crop Drying:

These agricultural solar energy applications are mostly simple heating sysetms.

Solar Cookers:

Manifactured as parabolic or box forms, these simple concentrating systems are widely used to cook food especially in underdeveloped countries.

2. CONCENTRATING SYSTEMS

Parabolic Through collectors:

Throughs has parabolic cross sections and are installed as rows. Throughs concentrate the solar energy onto a black pipe on the focus. The fluid, circulated in the focal line transfers the heat to the turbine cycle.

The most known of these systems is the 350 MW Kramer&Junction power plant (mostly known as Luz power plant) in California.

Parabolic Dish Systems:

Parabolic dish system tracks the sun’s movement in two axis and has one focus point. Thermal energy are transferred to an engine by a working fluid.

Central Receiver Systems:

Mirrors in a large field concntrate the sunlight on a heat exchanger, mounted on a tower.