NANOGEN’s portable solar power plants are self-contained and packaged in steel cargo containers, which can be shipped worldwide by sea, barge, truck or rail.
Upon arrival, the containers are aligned with the sun, based on latitude, using a surveyors transit and within 48 hours, the power plant can begin its operation.
Sunlight is captured by a patented stationary parabolic trough, which does not need mechanical tracking motors.
NanoCSP troughs are lightweight, shatterproof thermoplastic components, which are 100% recyclable, non-toxic, and produce no volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during any stage of production, repair, or recycling.
With this introduction, the company has reduced the cost of the solar collector components by more than 60%.
The solar troughs heat a proprietary thermal liquid, which powers the ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) engine; in the ORC closed combustion system, no VOC’s are released.
NANOGEN then uses a proprietary TES (Thermal Energy Storage) tank to store the heated thermal fluid at a temperature sufficient to power the gen-set, for up to 16 hours, after the sun has set.
While the portable units were originally designed for disaster relief, our current inquiries include back-up power systems for public buildings, co-generation compliance by power companies, military deployments and several off-grid mining operations in Africa.
