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NREL ETES long-duration thermal energy storage – IMAGE ©NREL Four years ago, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) won Department of Energy (DOE) ARPA-E funding to invent a new long-duration thermal energy storage technology able to discharge heat or power for 100 hours. The goal was to devise long-duration storage with a storage …
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Solar-heated cement calcining: “This is the key point: not only are we addressing carbon emissions from the heat input, which is traditionally supplied by fossil fuels, we’re also addressing the CO2 naturally liberated from calcining the calcium carbonate.” Solar-heated cement calcining – aided by the greenhouse effect? Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are advancing a …
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How to help invent the transition to a decarbonized world – research work in concentrated solar. Lina Hockaday and colleagues at Stellenbosch University attending the 2017 SolarPACES Conference Work in concentrated solar research is one rewarding way to help invent the transition to a decarbonized world SolarPACES talks to concentrated solar energy researchers at various …
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ANNOUNCES $33 MILLION TO DEPLOY SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES TO DECARBONIZE AMERICA’S INDUSTRIAL SECTOR Nine Projects Across Seven States Will Support Solar-Powered Production of Hydrogen and Lower Emissions from the Aviation, Food and Beverage, and Other Sectors WASHINGTON, D.C.—In support of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy …
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Carbon sequestration in mining waste over the past 50 years can be seen at BPH Group’s Australian nickel mine at Mt Keith. The mineral wastes have weathered and become bluer and then whiter, indicating the changed chemical composition as it sequesters CO2. Australian researchers propose using solar power to capture and store carbon in mining …
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Storage tank failure has long bedeviled the oil and gas industry. But there the liquids are not stored at such high temperatures as for concentrated solar thermal energy storage, with its daily heating and cooling cycles One of the failure mechanisms in the steel used in CST and CSP plants’ thermal energy storage tanks has …
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After the solar heat trap experiment measuring the temperature increase to 1050°C at the back of the solar receiver inside a solid block of quartz, even at the front, the temperature measured 450°C IMAGE©Solar thermal trapping at 1,000C and above. Solar receiver efficiency in concentrated solar thermal (CST) energy is determined by how much solar …
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Hiring 🚀 Do you want to contribute to a renewable energy supply? Then the DLR Institute of Solar Research is the right place for you! Our institute researches the utilisation of solar energy with the aim of further reducing CO₂ emissions. In addition to CO₂-free electricity generation, the provision of sustainable process heat in energy-intensive …
Professor Celia Sobrino, who teaches Thermal and Fluids Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, describes how TOPCSP aims to increase the supply of solar engineering researchers TOPCSP, a new doctoral network aims to be the first PhD training program to respond to the growing need for qualified CSP researchers New ways are being developed …
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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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