Archimede Solar Energy is the company of the Angelantoni Group that operates in the Renewable Energies sector.
Archimede produces, under license from ENEA, receiver tubes for thermodynamic solar power plants.
The tubes produced by Archimede operate at high temperatures (up to 550°C) and use molten salts.
In the solar power plants, the tubes are positioned in the focus of a parabolic solar mirror, which concentrates the sun’s rays; the thermal vector fluid runs inside the tubes.
Thanks to a spectrally selective coating (CERMET) and a casing kept in a vacuum, Archimede tubes ensure maximum sunlight yield (maximum absorption and minimum emission).
Thermodynamic solar power plants using molten salts produce energy without either emissions or pollution, and they do not make use of any toxic or dangerous materials. In particular, the vector fluid is a common fertilizer already used widely in agriculture.
The technology of the high-temperature thermodynamic solar power is modular and can meet needs for creating large autonomous solar power plants (measured in Gigawatts), for supplementing the thermoelectric plants currently in operation.
