The University of Évora hosted, on 1 February 2018, the first symposium of the NewSOL project organized by the Renewable Energy Chair. The event took place in auditorium 131 of Colégio Espírito Santo. It was an event open to the general public as a way of disseminating the project and its results to date.
During this symposium the various partners of the NewSOL project presented several topics related to ongoing research, such as innovations in molten salts such as heat transfer fluid, new materials for thermal storage or the inherent challenges of the project, namely thermo-linear technology.
The symposium program was the following:
09:30 Reception of Participants
09:45 Start of Symposium and Welcome address
10:00 “CSP Plants Worldwide” UEvora
10:15 “Overview of Energy storage for CSP Plants”, UEvora
10:30 “Sensible heat storage for CSP plants based on molten salts”, DLR
10:50 “Concrete and cement innovations”, SECIL
11:10 “Molten Salts in CSP: Materials and Corrosion”, LNEG
11:30 “Durable Aluminum Reinforced Environmentally-friendly Concrete Construction”, SINTEF
11:50 “Concrete application for Heat storage infrastructures: Concrete at high temperature”, CSIC
12:10 “Use of Yara-MOST as Heat Storage and Transfer Liquid”, Yara
12:30 “Challenges in Project Newsol”, UEvora
12:45 “INPOWER Project: TES materials advances”, Fertiberia
13:00 End.
The symposium was attended by 50 people (researchers, students and general public).
