The fourth symposium of the Portuguese Institute of Solar Energy (IPES) was held on October 24 and 25, 2018 with the theme “Solar Energy and the Future”. The event took place in Évora, Portugal, in the auditorium of the Alentejo Science and Technology Park (PACT).
The NewSOL project was attended by the University of Évora (UEvora), the National Engineering and Geology Laboratory (LNEG), the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) and YARA International.
The program of the event was the following:
9:00h – Opening session Rector of the University of Évora – Prof. Ana Costa Freitas
Vogal Alentejo 2020 – Dr. Hélder Guerreiro
President of LNEG – Dr. Teresa Ponce de Leão
President of Estela – Dr. Luis Crespo
President of IPES – Prof. Manuel Collares Pereira
I – Solar Energy Concentration: The State of the art and the vision
9:30h A Vision from the solar concentration industry – Luís Crespo (President of ESTELA – European Solar Thermal Electricity Industrial Association)
10:15h Research and Development at European level, final conclusions of Project STAGE-STE – Julian Blanco (CIEMAT–PSA)
11:00h Coffee Break
11:30h CSP State of the Art and New Developments, the DLR vision – Klaus Hennecke (DLR)
12:00h CSP State of the Art and New Developments, the CENER vision – Marcelino Sanchez (CENER) 12:30h Linear Concentration Technology, Advances and New Opportunities – Manuel Collares Pereira and Diogo Canavarro (U. Évora – Renewable Energies Chair)
13:00h Lunch
14:30h Solar Fuels from thin air, where are We? – Dr. Alexander Muroyama (ETH – Zurich)
15:00h INSHIP Project – Pedro Horta (Fraunhofer ISE)
II – HPS-2 Parabolic Trough Concentrators and molten salts as Heat Transfer Fluid and for thermal energy storage
15:30h HPS2 – High Performance Solar 2 @ EMSP – Michael Wittmann (DLR)
15:45h Challenges and solutions for parabolic trough collectors using molten salt as HTF – Mark Schmitz (TSK-Flagsol)
16:00h Molten Salts as Heat Transfer Fluid and for thermal energy storage – Günter Doppelbauer (YARA)
16:15h From heat to steam (electricity) – Jaime Paucar (Steinmüller Engineering)
16:30h Heat Tracing – Purpose and Solutions in HPS2 – Peter Schmidt (Eltherm)
16:45h Coffee Break
III – Energy Storage: Alternative solutions
17:15h Project NEWSOL – Thermal energy storage, new concepts – Luís Guerreiro (U.Évora – Renewable Energies Chair)
17:30h 2 Tanks vs 1 tank solution for thermal energy storage (Thermocline) – Thomas Fasquelle (U. Évora – Renewable Energies Chair)
17:45h Challenges in the electric mobility management – Filipe Lopes (EFACEC)
18:00h Direct Electricity Storage – Flowbatteries – Luis Fialho (U. Évora – Renewable Energies Chair)
2nd day – September 25th
IV– Solar Energy interfaces with technologies
09:30h SHIP Project | Demonstration of a holistic system of production, storage and direct supply of heat to industrial processes based on solar thermal energy – Ricardo Barbosa (INEGI)
09:45h Quasi-stationary CPC-type solar collectors for process heat aplications – Tiago Osório (U. Évora – Renewable Energies Chair)
10:00h Soiling in Solar Energy Conversion Technologies – Ricardo Conceição (U. Évora – Renewable Energies Chair)
10:15h ECMWF forecasts of DNI towards a more efficient management of concentrated solar thermal plants – Hugo G. Silva (U. Évora – Renewable Energies Chair)
10:30h Porous materials as volumetric solar thermal receivers in concentration systems – Germilly Barreto (U.Évora)
10:45h Measurement and analysis of Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI) in Southern Portugal – Afonso Cavaco (IPES)
11:00h Durability of CSP Materials – Teresa Diamantino (LNEG)
11:15h Coffee Break 11:45h Round Table – Solar Energy and the future of energy for a decarbed economy (Moderator: Manuel Collares Pereira)
12:30h Conclusions and End of the Symposium – Manuel Collares Pereira (IPES)
12:45h Lunch
V – Technical Visits
14:30h Visit to Solar Field at EMSP (Évora Molten Salt Platform) – Herdade da Mitra, with the presence of the Minister for Scince and Technology, Professor Manuel Heitor
Brief presentation and words by
15:00h Visit to the EMSP site: TSK – Flagsol Parabolic Trough Solar Field (Project HPS-2)
16:00h Visit to PECS – Solar Concentrator modules Testing Facility
17:00h Sunset get together
During this symposium, which was attended by 60 people, communications were made on the NewSOL project as well as dissemination of the project through informative posters. There was also a technical visit to the EMSP facilities of the University of Évora, where NewSOl trials will be conducted in line with the HPS-2 project.
