Hi all,
I am an electrical/electronical engineer with mechanical engineering supplement from Turkey. I have about 35 years of experience designing-building-operating-maintaining-troubleshooting-fixing electrical/electronical systems, and about 27 years of similar experience on mechanical systems and plants.
I am also a science oriented person, spending most of the time on research for new technologies and practical solutions for valuable applications.
Since 8 years, I have my own company operating in industrial automation sector. From the establishment of this company on, I concentrated my research on renewable energy, especially wind and concentrated solar power systems (CSP). I have conducted lots of research on these subjects in academical, technological, economical and business sub areas.
Since last 2 years or so, I was working for developing a CSP project in Africa. Throughout this work, my aim was to minimize the overall installation cost of the plant, while keeping the technological requirements as low as possible.
Because of the lack of any technology in the installation area, I had to plan many of the manufacturing processes in house, resulting almost in a fully integrated CSP producing plant. Processes such as hot-dip galvanizing, selective coating of the receiver, production of rectangular steel tubes from rolled sheets etc. were all designed to be handled in site, in a dedicated temporary factory.
During the work analyzing the feasibility of this production plant, I happily noticed that integrating as much processes as possible to the production plant reduces the overall CSP plant cost very drammatically.
In the end, I came up with a business plan for implementing a 100 MW CSP plant with 16 hours of storage (almost 24 hours continuous operation), with a cost at a very reasonable fraction of similar plants in the world, already built or in construction. I may present a comparison of cost of the proposed plant to similar projects already built or under construction in the world.
This project was developed to be implemented in cooperation with a NGO acting in African countries, but although we had lots of meetings, presentations, invitations, agreements etc. by the top governmental agencies in Africa, I almost lost my confidence that this plant will ever be built, and at the same time, I don't want such a valuable work to be thrown away.
The resources needed for implementing such a project into reality is far beyond my abilities, and my hope is to find a serious investor to get a chance of implementation of this project.
Regards,
Mustafa Ayhan
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