Science & Tech · Science & Environment · 9 hrs ago
China starts building power plant using molten salt and supercritical CO2
China has begun building the Ruitan power project in Yantai, in eastern China’s Shandong province.
It is at a coal-fired power station and is described as the world’s first utility-scale plant to combine supercritical carbon dioxide power generation with large-scale molten salt energy storage.
The two technologies are meant to work together.
Electricity made when demand is low can be stored using molten salt.
The project aims to reduce wasted energy and help make the electrical grid more stable.
It is intended to demonstrate whether combining the technologies can deliver those benefits.
Construction is under way, but no completion date is given.
China has begun building the world’s first utility-scale power plant combining supercritical carbon dioxide power generation and large-scale molten salt energy storage.
The Ruitan project is being built at a coal-fired power station in Yantai, in eastern China’s Shandong province.
The project is intended to demonstrate how the technologies could reduce energy wastage and improve electrical grid stability.
The plant combines electricity generation using supercritical carbon dioxide with molten salt energy storage.
- Who
- China has begun building the Ruitan project.
- What
- A utility-scale power plant combining supercritical carbon dioxide generation and large-scale molten salt energy storage.
- When
- Not stated
- Where
- A coal-fired power station in Yantai, Shandong province, eastern China.
- Why
- To demonstrate how the technologies can reduce energy wastage and improve electrical grid stability.
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- Project
- Ruitan
- Technology
- Supercritical carbon dioxide generation and large-scale molten salt energy storage
- Location
- Yantai, Shandong province, eastern China
- Claimed first
- The world’s first utility-scale plant combining the two technologies
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