SFERA-III 3rd Training for Industries

From 8 to 10 June 2022, CEA-Liten and DLR co-organised the 3rd Training for Industries course at INES – Institut National de l’Energie Solaire  in Le Bourget-du-Lac, France. This course was designed for engineers, researchers and representatives from European CSP and SHIP industry and companies, and dedicated to “Durability of solar materials and systems”.

It welcomed 8 professionals from Magaldi Power (Italy), Absolicon Solar Collector  (Sweden), Universidade do Minho (Portugal), Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University (Turkey) and Plataforma Solar de Almería – CIEMAT (Spain). The training consisted of both theoretical and practical modules, and included facilities’ visits and practical test cases. Knowledge-Transfer covered the following topics:

  • Indoor laboratory and outdoor aging facilities
  • Accelerated ageing of components and systems subjected to high solar flux, thermal, humidity and corrosive environments
  • Optical and mechanical characterizations
  • Accelerated aging test modeling durability method
  • Practical test cases

The slides shown during the training can be downloaded here.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 823802