The first SFERA summer school and doctorial colloquium was held from September 9th to September 13th 2019 at the premises of the CNRS-PROMES laboratory. The full programme of the two events can be found here :
You can download the presentations of the Summer School below:
Day 1 : Monday, September 9th, 2019
• Introductive talk, by Alain Ferriere (CNRS): “The CSP technologies: market status and opportunities for R&D”Download
• Thermal Energy Storage – Class 1, by Eduardo Zarza & Esther Rojas (CIEMAT): “TES for solar thermal power plants: introduction, commercial systems, integration issues and latent heat”Download
• Thermal Energy Storage – Class 2, by Anna Chiara Tizzoni (ENEA) “Novel molten salts for TES application in CSP plants”Download
• Thermal Energy Storage – Class 3, by Sylvie Rougé (CEA): “Thermochemical TES: challenges and issues”Download
Day 2 : Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
• Introductive lecture, by Manuel Romero (IMDEA Energy): “Next generation of CSP plants: technology developments and market opportunities”Download
• Collectors – Class 1, by Diogo Canavarro (Univ Evora): “New concepts of line focus and point focus collectors”Download
• Collectors – Class 2, by Jose González-Aguilar (IMDEA Energy): “New concepts of heliostats for solar tower systems”Download
• Collectors – Case study, by Shahab Rohani (Fraunhofer ISE): “A design tool for heliostat field layout”Download
• Cycles – Introductive lecture, by Eduardo Zarza (CIEMAT): “Thermodynamic cycles for CSP plants: state-of-the-art and challenges”Download
• Cycles – Class 1, by Manuel Romero (IMDEA Energy): “sCO2 cycles for CSP plants: challenges and issues”Download
• Cycles – Class 2, by Daniel Benitez (DLR): “Hybrid CSP-PV plants: examples of configurations and simulation using Greenius“Download
Doctorial Colloquium, 11-12 September 2019
The booklet of abstracts related to the content of the doctoral colloquium is also available for download here:
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 823802