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A team of solar researchers in Greece is contributing to the development of a technology to produce bio-crude from mixed wet waste processed onsite in a mobile solar-heated reaction chamber. They have innovated the use of concentrated solar thermal (CST) energy to heat this process using hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) to produce bio-crude, a thick oil …
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India’s CSP tender described by Ajay Kumar Sinha, AGM of Contracts & Procurement at SECI (Solar Energy Corporation of India) India’s CSP tender is making waves. NTPC has carved out an unprecedented over-50% for concentrated solar thermal technologies in its renewables tender, and has also just been reported to have announced a 500 MW tender …
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The iterations of the design for the packed bed layered radial thermal energy storage: View full size An over 90% efficient thermal storage technology from KTH gets further refinements Energy storage will become essential to fully replace fossil fuels for industrial heat and the electric grid. Batteries are a cost-effective solution when electricity is needed as …
Sulfur can be stored like a pile of coal. “This cycle allows you to get energy out of the sulphur and store it in between. Why it’s in focus now is that we can use 100% renewable energy – concentrated solar – to heat the reaction. That’s why chemical companies now come in and are …
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In the future, the heat from highly concentrated solar energy could be used for a solar pyrolysis technology to recycle lithium-ion batteries As a new industry, lithium-ion battery recycling with pyrolysis could be heated by concentrated solar energy from the start One of the hurdles for concentrated solar thermal energy to decarbonize heat-based industrial processes …
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Vast Solar is one of the few commercial firms numbering-up modules in CSP. Efficiency or LCOE: which is more important to reduce the cost of Gen-3 CSP systems? A pair of related papers from ANU in Australia compare the value of efficiency versus Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) in Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) systems. The …
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Heatcube tanks of molten-salts ©Kyotogroup Norway’s Heatcube began life in a quest to replace wood-fired heat used in the tea industry in rural Africa. “The idea was to try to bring cheap heat to Africa,” explained Kyotogroup’s Tim de Haas. “The challenge was that farmers were using a good portion of their land to cultivate …
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India’s 2024 renewables tender to be over 50% CSP Image Cerro Dominador tower CSP project in Chile ©GrupoCobra In the first quarter of 2024, India plans to put out a tender for renewable energy that includes not just a carve-out, but the largest ever, requiring over 50% to be supplied by Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), …
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3D-printing the perfect ceria structure enables incoming heat from a solar field of mirrors to spread evenly throughout a solar reactor.(How solar fuels are made: thermochemistry) IMAGE@Sebastian Sas Brunser 3D-printed ceria was one of the many brilliant ideas presented by international solar researchers at this year’s SolarPACES Conference in Sydney. In solar reactors for making …
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Methane Pyrolysis in a Liquid Metal Bubble Column Reactor Using a bubble column reactor at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, the Liquid Metal Laboratory team is working on producing hydrogen from methane, the cheapest method, but without CO2 emissions – the problem with the cheapest method. The main product, besides hydrogen, is carbon, which, like green …