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Dow's portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 160 countries. In 2009, Dow had annual sales of $45 billion and employed approximately 52,000 people worldwide. DOWTHERM(tm) a heat transfer fluids collect, transport, and store solar heat energy to power electricity-generating turbines.

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HTF Degradation

Dow's portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 160 countries. In 2009, Dow had annual sales of $45 billion and employed approximately 52,000 people worldwide. DOWTHERM(tm) a heat transfer fluids collect, transport, and store solar heat energy to power electricity-generating turbines.

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4th Annual International CSP Summit

Seville, November 2010

Offering Long Term Solutions


through Sustainable Chemistry
to the CSP industry

Polyglycols, Surfactants and Fluids


A business unit of The Dow Chemical Company

1
Dow‘s Corporate Profile

 Dow combines the power of science and technology with the


“Human Element” to passionately innovate what is essential to
human progress.
 Dow’s diversified industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical,
advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a
broad range of technology-based products and solutions to
customers in approximately 160 countries and in high growth sectors
such as electronics, water, energy, coatings and agriculture.
 In 2009, Dow had annual sales of $45 billion and employed
approximately 52,000 people worldwide. The Company’s more than
5,000 products are manufactured at 214 sites in 37 countries across
the globe.
 Dow Chemical Ibérica, the Spanish subsidiary of Dow, has been in
Spain since the early 1960s – and considers Spain to be a strategic
growth country for The Dow Chemical Company. Dow Ibérica has
three production centres in Tarragona, Ribaforada (Navarra) and
Estarreja (Portugal), as well as commercial sales office and
headquarters in Madrid.

2
Concentrating Solar Power
DOWTHERMTM A heat transfer fluids collect, transport, and store
solar heat energy to power electricity-generating turbines.

Sustainability Profile:

Dow supplied enough fluid


globally to generate more than
700 MW of electricity from the
sun

 Projects in Spain use more than


20,000 metric tons of
DOWTHERM™ A heat transfer
fluids Energy produced by 12 plants
is enough to power nearly 400,000
homes

 These plants prevent about


1350,000 tons of carbon dioxide
from releasing into the atmosphere,
vs. traditional fuels
™ Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company
3
REACH status for DOWTHERMTM A

 We are in compliance with REACH for DOWTHERM™ A and


its composition.

 The components are fully REGISTERED, even prior to


submission deadline that is on November 30th.

 Our customers can continue to specify and use


DOWTHERM™ A in their process.

 All REACH information is available on our [Link] site


or by contacting your sales person or CIG.

™ Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company 4


DOWTHERMTM A – Reliability of Supply

Integrated manufacturing for key raw materials in the United States


(Texas and Louisiana)
DOWTHERM™ A raw materials have additional Dow uses:
Surfactants, Additives, Resins
Well maintained, state-of-the-art facilities and operations
Back integrated in the key raw materials
Large blending operations in North America and Europe
Large storage capabilities in North America, Latin America, Europe
and Asia Pacific
We have not failed with any of our customers, allowing them to safely
start on time!

TM Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company 5


Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence
 At Dow, safety, efficiency and cost-effectiveness are our highest
priorities.

 With over 300 warehouses and


122 terminals, we have shipping
sites in 200 countries.
 We have a dedicated team of
professionals for Dow CSP Fluids.
 Specific intermediate storage
capabilities have been created
 Consult customers to set their plants
to the right pre-conditions
 Freeze protection
 Cleaning & Drying of HTF
equipment.
 Unloading station equipment
 Unloading methods and procedures
 Safety

6
DOWTHERMTM A: Sustainable
performance
 DOWTHERM™ A thermally stable up to 400 deg Celsius. With a HTTF
system properly designed and no temperature incursion above 400 deg
C, fluid is proven extremely stable.
 A high purity fluid is required for high temperature system or faster
degradation will occur. Dow supplies very high purity DOWTHERM™A
to enhance lifetime of its fluid.
 Properly designed Systems can regularly vent off low boiling
degradation products. Online regeneration systems can be used in the
HTF loop to remove high boiling degradation products also. Dow offers
advice to properly design these units.
 Maintaining the high-boiling component concentration below 10% is
essential:

 Proper tracking of fluid composition.


 Ad-hoc separation of high boilers via regeneration unit (ullage system).
 Minimal but regular top up are needed to replace the separated degradation
products.

 Dow offers support to best design the HTTF loop, as well as to track
performance by regularly sampling and analyzing the fluid.
 DOW and Valls Química are offering regeneration services for Spanish
CSP.
 Feedbacks from plants started ca. 20 years ago indicate that the fluid is
in excellent condition.
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Thermal Degradation of
DOWTHERM™ A Fluid

100
90
% degradation per year

80
70
60
Tested
50 according to
For CSP plants:
40 DIN 51528
30 1-4% /year
20 degradation products
10 expected
0
330 340 350 360 370 380 390 400 410 420
Operating temperature [°C]
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Handling of degradation products
Separation options:
1. Basic separation of Low Boilers via venting – replacement of
total HTF after 10% High Boilers is reached.
2. Onsite separation via high efficiency distillation unit – external
incineration of separated products.
3. Onsite separation via flash vessel design (ullage) - high
efficient separation externally.
Third option is the most economic
Low installation cost
Easy operability
Acceptable freezing point of separated products & no
corrosion problems
No care on transportation and waste handling
Dow and Valls Química, your reliable partners for
high quality external regeneration.

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Handling of degradation products
with ULLAGE system

™ Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company 10


Valls Química – Dow’s partner on
DOWTHERM™ A regeneration

 Batch
Regeneration of min. 25 up to 200
MT Dowtherm™ A
 Pickup of products to regenerate
 Handling of transportation documents
 Purify back to DOWTHERM™ A sales
specification
 Minimum losses on DPO and Biphenyl
 Adjustment of component level if
required
 Handling of waste products
 Own laboratory for quality control
 Shipment of product back to the CSP plant

™ Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company 11


Conclusion

 DOWTHERM™ A fluid for Concentrated Solar Plant is


proven technology.

 High Thermal stability up to 400 deg C and low degradation


level though proper use of the fluid and proper system
design.

 Dow offers full support to enable CSP operators to best use


and maintain their fluid system.

 Dow is proud to team up with Valls Quimica in Spain to offer


complete fluid life service to its customers.

 Dow is offering long time sustainable solutions through


mastering of chemistry.

™ Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company 12


Thanks!

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