Geography Of Alberta Essay
5.1.2 Geography of Alberta
“Occupying the northern half of the North American continent, the province of Alberta is situated between 60 degrees and 49 degrees latitude north along the Canada-U.S. border. Spanning 661,185 square km (255,200 square miles), Alberta covers almost 7% of Canada’s land mass.” [10] Alberta territory occupies almost 7% of whole Canada’s land mass. The territory geographically comprises diverse natural topographies such as lakes, rivers, glaciers, mountains, forests, badlands, wetlands and open plains. The type of territory consists of plains at 90 percentages in Alberta with forest, peat land, grassland and parkland.
5.2 Selection of the Appropriate Location
A selective site of installing solar thermal power system is one of main keys to determine if the targeted amount of energy can be generated. Numerous sites in Alberta were on the list, and then the choice narrowed down to Lethbridge airport and Medicine hat which is the best climate conditioned location. The conditions include air temperature, an amount of daily solar radiation and wind speed etc. The most affected …show more content…
6.1 System Equipment
In this chapter, detailed information on main components is provided with the specifications.
6.1.1 Fresnel Reflector
This collector consists of a collector, receiver and tracking system. A steam drum is an optional component. The Fresnel collector seems to operate same as parabolic trough outwardly but, this system has different operational principles which are known as Fresnel lens effect. Fresnel lens effect supports a reflector (concentrating mirrors) to maximize collecting the heat energy with a large aperture and short focal length. This reflector is flat mirrored to collect heat energy. Instead, tracking system and secondary mirrors supplement shortcoming which is low efficiency and energy
“Occupying the northern half of the North American continent, the province of Alberta is situated between 60 degrees and 49 degrees latitude north along the Canada-U.S. border. Spanning 661,185 square km (255,200 square miles), Alberta covers almost 7% of Canada’s land mass.” [10] Alberta territory occupies almost 7% of whole Canada’s land mass. The territory geographically comprises diverse natural topographies such as lakes, rivers, glaciers, mountains, forests, badlands, wetlands and open plains. The type of territory consists of plains at 90 percentages in Alberta with forest, peat land, grassland and parkland.
5.2 Selection of the Appropriate Location
A selective site of installing solar thermal power system is one of main keys to determine if the targeted amount of energy can be generated. Numerous sites in Alberta were on the list, and then the choice narrowed down to Lethbridge airport and Medicine hat which is the best climate conditioned location. The conditions include air temperature, an amount of daily solar radiation and wind speed etc. The most affected …show more content…
6.1 System Equipment
In this chapter, detailed information on main components is provided with the specifications.
6.1.1 Fresnel Reflector
This collector consists of a collector, receiver and tracking system. A steam drum is an optional component. The Fresnel collector seems to operate same as parabolic trough outwardly but, this system has different operational principles which are known as Fresnel lens effect. Fresnel lens effect supports a reflector (concentrating mirrors) to maximize collecting the heat energy with a large aperture and short focal length. This reflector is flat mirrored to collect heat energy. Instead, tracking system and secondary mirrors supplement shortcoming which is low efficiency and energy