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SolarPACES 2022: Proceedings are being published Dear participants of the SolarPACES 2022 conference, We are delighted to announce the release of the SolarPACES 2022 conference proceedings on the TIB platform. Please be aware that the papers are being published sequentially. If you do not see your paper yet, we encourage you to regularly check the …
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Comparative study of process simulation, energy and exergy analyses of solar enhanced char-cycling biomass pyrolysis process Abstract: Pyrolysis is an efficient technology for converting biomass into value-added products, characterized by endothermal reactions. The introduction of induced solar irradiance can boost product yields and reduce carbon emissions associated with incineration. However, direct solar pyrolysis faces challenges …
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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The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) provides access to debt capital for high-impact energy and manufacturing projects. Over more than a decade, LPO has developed a strong understanding of what makes a project more likely to advance through LPO’s processes, as well as the areas that commonly slow down or stop projects in the process. …
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The cost of renewable energy has significantly decreased in recent years, which marks the way towards a fully renewable and sustainable future. However, this energy transition is not possible without massive grid-scale energy storage technology since most of the renewable energies are highly variable. In areas with a high solar resource, Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) can play a crucial …
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 …
EuroTrough for CSP in Tibet The EuroTrough technology, developed by sbp sonne, has been selected for China’s newest CSP power plant in Tibet. sbp sonne will provide the technology and engineering service for this challenging site at an elevation of 4,500 meters in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The ZhabuYe Parabolic Trough power plant …
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Abstract: This work presents the design and techno-economic analysis of a 100 MWe concentrated solar power (CSP) system using a supercritical CO2 power block with 700 °C input temperature. Aiming to leverage the relatively higher efficiency of small heliostat fields and potential multi-build discounts, a numbering-up approach is examined, developing four alternative configurations (1×100, 2×50, …
Like the first samples of other new energy technologies, the first full-scale CSP tower with thermal energy storage had a shaky start The Crescent Dunes CSP project in the US was the first of a kind at 110 MW. The first tower CSP with thermal energy storage at full-scale. (Above about 150 MW, the distances …