2.4. Integration concepts
Many industry branches use saturated steam as a medium to transfer heat to various processes. Concentrating
solar collectors can supply heat to these steam lines either indirectly or directly by the so-called Direct Steam
Generation (DSG) process.
Since the DSG process has been regarded as difficult to control, installations thus far have mainly been designed
as a closed circuit. This has, for example, been realized in a potato chip factory in Modesto, California, where a