Synhelion starts building solar tower for cement production

        August 7, 2023 PV Magazine | Spain | renewables: solar

Cement is produced via high temperatures at a concentrated solar power plant instead of coal. The solar tower was built at a cement plant in Móstoles, southwest of Madrid, to make clinker cement in a rotary kiln at almost 1,500 °C and store excess heat for thermal storage. The process also produces CO and hydrogen gas to make jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel.