Deliverables

Capacity building
and training activities
Mid-term report on the doctorial colloquia/schools, including booklet of abstracts/lectures
Final report and assessment on the doctorial colloquia/schools, including booklet of abstracts/lectures
Mid-term report on the on-site trainings, including booklet of courses
Final report and assessment on the on-site trainings, including booklet of courses

Scientific and
Technological Exchanges
Test protocols for the execution of the pre-defined activities
Final report on Standards, Protocols and Interoperability
Definition and dissemination of the short-term trainings
Final report on training visit for technical staff and scientists
Final report on Exchange of Staff Personnel

Advanced Integrating
Activities
State of the art of existing research infrastructure facilities and services
Strategy report on research infrastructure needs
Strategy report for funding alignment

Organisation and Management
of the TA
Description of facilities participating to the TNA programme
Trans National Access Provision V1
Trans National Access Provision V2
Trans National Access Provision V3

Trans-national
Access Activities
Report on the Trans National Access Programme

Development of test procedures for materials and components of thermal storage systems
Dynamic corrosion methodologies of molten salts
Feasibility of materials as storage media
Standardization of testing prototypes for storage systems
Characterization of components for commercial TES

Development and testing of new technological concepts for solar desalination and water treatment facilities
Guidelines for reporting the performance of DWT systems
Testing procedures for new materials, components and collectors for DWT processes
Standardization of testing procedures and capacity development
New modelling capabilities for DWT RIs
Exploitable products/methodologies (protocols) for DWT RIs improvement and penetration to the market

Dynamic control and diagnostics of integrated systems for the production of solar fuels
Chemically active material characterisation
Material durability test
Standardised figures of merit for reactors
Testing of benchmarking techniques
Implementation of reactor and system control tools

Monitoring physical properties of receiver materials at focal point of concentrated solar facilities
In-Situ evaluation of the mechanical health of tower solar receivers using acoustic emission methods
Better emissivity evaluation for CST solar receivers in laboratory and in the field
Round robin comparison of emissivity measurements for CST receivers
Ageing services improvements for CST applications

Sensor calibrations and techniques for accurate determination of performance parameters of prototypes
Publication on accuracy of test benches for PTR heat loss measurements
Outlining and evaluating the developed algorithms for intrahour DNI forecasting
Influence of using sky imager data on the accuracy of performance parameter determination
Accuracy of transient linear Fresnel collector testing
Increased robustness of the CyI Fresnel research infrastructure against DNI variations
Techniques for shape measurements of heliostat units
Methodology implementation for heliostat fields

Towards an European e-Infrastructure on CST technologies
Content (tools) to be offered by the e-infrastructure to the Users
Technical specifications related to software/hardware requirements to implement the e-infrastructure
Data Management Plan and Data Access Policy

Communication, dissemination, and exploitation of results
Plan for exploitation and dissemination of the project results
Mid-term report on dissemination and communication activities
Final report on the project exploitation initiatives and related impacts on innovation, including dissemination and communication activities
Final report on the contributions to CST standards

Management and Coordination
Periodic Report 1
Periodic Report 2
Periodic Report 3
Final report

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