Dust impact on concentrated solar power: A review

Many sites with high solar radiation face dust loads that reduce energy generation by concentrated power plants. This review presents the attenuative impacts of atmospheric aerosols, as well reflectivity losses due to soiling reflectors, covering both experimental investigations and numerical studies; along presenting theoretical background. The chemical nature physics extinction phenomena (scattering absorption) are also reviewed. Suspended particles like aerosols result in reaches concentrators, deposition these on reflectors provokes decreases up 80% their reflectivity, thus enhances cumulus optical reduction production. Even though affects CSP photovoltaics, technologies suffer more losses. impact should be particularly considered during planning phase thermal plants, since its consequent output can severe. While there have been multiple papers dust-related problems for PV, present paper is first literature dedicated power.