Summary of Standardization for Concentrating Solar Plants in Industrial Processes

The Solar Heat Integration in Industrial Processes (SHIP) covers a wide range of temperature applications, from low temperature for which need flat plate collectors (FPC) or evacuated tubes collectors (ETC), to high temperature which need larger parabolic-trough collectors (PTC), linear Fresnel (LFR) or solar tower (ST), like the one installed in Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants. This paper aims to present a summary of all the existing standards (published or in work process) that should be used in a SHIP plant to regulate and ensure the products used in those renewable energy thermal plants.