Order Focus: Abengoa contracts with Alfa Laval for South African CSP project

December 5, 2012
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Alfa Laval, a heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling company, has been tapped by Abengoa to deliver its Packinox heat exchangers for a concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in South Africa.

Delivery of Alfa Laval’s products will be finalised in 2014. The companies did not disclose the exact value of the order.

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The heat exchangers were specifically developed for this application and will play a key part as the center of the thermal storage system. 

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