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Webinar – Securing funding from research to project development stages: promoting diversity in project leadership December 3rd at 8h PST / 11h EST / 17h CET (Check your local time) | Duration: 1h Register at ATA (LinkedIn) Join us for an empowering webinar in collaboration with Women+ in Concentrated Solar designed to elevate your skills …
China’s largest concentrated solar-thermal power project in northwestern Xinjiang connects to State Grid Source: Global Times The 1-million-kilowatt integrated concentrated solar-thermal power (CSP) and photovoltaic (PV) energy demonstration project in Hami, in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has commenced power generation and connected to the State Grid, a spokesperson from the Northwest Electric Power …
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ETH-Zurich, IMDEA Energy, and Synhelion have demonstrated solar syngas production in a solar tower with high efficiency and selectivity Renewable energy – for electricity – can now easily and cheaply replace fossil fuels for electricity, however producing liquid transportation fuels like gasoline and aviation fuel using solar energy remains a challenge. Sustainable drop-in fuels are …
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Abstract: Biomass gasification driven by solar energy is a potential route for the syngas production as well as storage of unsteady solar energy. However, the influences of the non-homogeneous effects caused by unidirectional concentrated solar radiation on the gasification process were overlooked in existing studies, which in turn led to the inaccuracy of the developed …
Abstract: Solar energy capture and storage using falling solid particles are being explored for cost-effective next generation concentrating solar power systems. A critical consideration in this technology is the abrasion wear caused by the sliding of the particles under varying speed and pressure over component surfaces. This study presents computational modeling of a subsystem comprising …
Abstract: A high-temperature stable solar absorber is crucial for next-generation (Gen3) concentrating solar power (CSP) plants, to enable high temperature operation, maximize power generation efficiency, and thereby reduce the levelized cost of energy. This study presents novel, fractal-textured solar absorber coatings whose multiscale feature scales effectively match the visible region of the solar spectrum, leading …
Image ©Two-Step Thermochemical Conversion of CO2 using a Novel Nd1-xSrxMnO3 Perovskite. To lower the costs of solar fuels and thermal energy storage, concentrated solar thermal (CST) researchers are working on increasing solar thermochemistry’s performance and redox cycle-ability. Researchers at Khalifa University of Science and Technology have designed a perovskite mix that promises to achieve both …
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Abstract: Bauxite-based proppants, commonly used in the fracking industry, are also employed in solid particle receiver types of Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) technologies. However, fracking has been banned in many countries due to its environmental impact, leading to a decline in demand for proppants. As a result, the current proppant price of 1 €/kg is …
Falling Particle Receiver research has been global. Dr Jin-Soo Kim in Australia’s Falling Particles Process Bay, Newcastle Energy Centre IMAGE©CSIRO Government-funded research into decarbonizing heavy industry using concentrated solar thermal (CST) yields results with the world’s first spin-off based on a new kind of high temperature solar receiver – the falling particle receiver. Because of …
US solar steam projects developer GlassPoint on Tuesday announced it is advancing plans to build the world’s largest industrial solar thermal project in Saudi Arabia, unveiling the next phase of development for the GlassPoint Ma’aden Technology Showcase (GMTS). GlassPoint is developing the GMTS project with the Ministry of Investment of Saudi Arabia (MISA). The company …