DLR testing the use of molten salt in a solar power plant in Portugal

Evora, Portugal (SPX) Oct 26, 2021

Engineers from the German Aerospace Center have taken an important step towards using molten salt as a heat transfer medium in parabolic trough solar power plants. Together with the University of Evora and industrial partners, a team from the DLR Institute of Solar Research has for the first time begun operating the solar field of the Evora parabolic trough test plant in Portugal with molten sa