Month: October 2023

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Published at Chemical Engineering Transactions – Assessment of the Techno-economic Viability of the Optimal CSP Plant Technology in Egypt’s Climate

The DNI in Egyptshows a resource of 2500 along the North coast Abstract: Photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) are the two main methods for capturing solar energy. Egypt has so far focused its energy investments on solar PV technology. However, considering Egypt’s hot, dry weather throughout the year, centralized large-scale PV power generation …

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Published at Chemical Engineering Science – Experimental screening of metal nitrides hydrolysis for green ammonia synthesis via solar thermochemical looping

Abstract: Ammonia is a fundamental chemical commodity for fertilizers and as a novel energy vector. Solar-driven ammonia synthesis is proposed as a sustainable alternative to the catalytic energy-intensive and CO2-emitting Haber-Bosch process. The considered thermochemical process aims to produce ammonia from nitrogen and water (N2 + 3H2O → 2NH3 + 1.5O2) via redox cycles using …

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SolarPACES celebrates the lifetime achievements of Robert Pitz-Paal and Eduardo Zarza

SolarPACES Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 Robert Pitz-Paal and Eduardo Zarza The SolarPACES network, under the auspices of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has presented this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award to a duo: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Pitz-Paal from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Dr. Eduardo Zarza from the Spanish research centre CIEMAT. SolarPACES thus acknowledges …

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Chilean President to visit Cosin Solar Concentrated Solar Power project in China

The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, together with his entourage and a delegation of businessmen from the energy sector, will visit the Chinese Concentrated Solar Power plant with the highest production in the world, according to H2 News. President Boric, accompanied by representatives of Cosin Solar, an international company that is part of the Asociación …

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Chilean President to visit Cosin Solar CSP project in China

IMAGE at Cosin Solar The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, together with his entourage and a delegation of businessmen from the energy sector, will visit the Chinese CSP plant with the highest production in the world, according to H2 News. President Boric, accompanied by representatives of Cosin Solar, an international company that is part of …

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New plant desalts well water using the reverse osmosis process, powered by solar thermal energy

Tunisia is innovating in the field of desalination. Tunisian engineers have just inaugurated Desaltec-z1 at the Miladi organic oil mill in Zarzis, in the south-east of the country. The new plant desalts well water using the reverse osmosis process, powered by solar thermal energy. Work on the solar thermal water desalination plant in Zarzis is …

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Black coating mimicking sea corals wins SolarPACES 2023 innovation award

Smiles abound at SolarPACES 2023 where the engineers behind a record-setting solar energy coating received the Technology Innovation Award. From L to R: PhD candidate Yifan Guo, Dr Juan Felipe Torres, Dr Joe Coventry, Kaoru Tsuda, CEO of Nano Frontier Technology, and ANU PhD candidate Sahar Hosseini. FRIDAY 13 OCTOBER 2023 An international team of engineers …

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Heliogen Achieves Milestones for Gen3 Concentrated Solar Power Project

Heliogen, a leading AI-enabled concentrating solar energy technology provider, has reached two significant milestones in the development of its Capella Project. The Capella Project is the world’s first fully integrated Gen3 Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) commercial demonstration. Firstly, Heliogen has successfully deployed the first commercial-scale centrifugal particle receiver for on-sun testing. This receiver plays a …

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Pushing the boundaries of Concentrated Solar power technology could revolutionise the way we store and use solar energy

Breakthrough solar thermal research is using ceramic particles that act like a battery, storing solar energy as heat. Concentrated solar thermal (CST) with ceramic particles offer a reliable, renewable power source that can be used even when the sun isn’t shining. This technology could play a key role in reducing industrial emissions, which currently account …

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MIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel

Conventional systems for producing hydrogen depend on fossil fuels, but the new system uses only concentrated solar power. MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like system of reactors that is driven solely by the sun. In a study appearing today in Solar Energy Journal, the engineers lay out …

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