Although the utilization of concentrated solar power (CSP) for electricity production is already at commercial stage, the application to energy intensive industrial processes is still at an early stage. Among these, the cement industry is one of the biggest CO2-emitters and requires temperature levels achievable with concentrated solar radiation. Since fine particles have to be…
In the framework of the SOLPART project, Solar researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have investigated how solar energy can replace fossil fuels for the cement production process. Successful tests verify the suitability of the process The tests were conducted between December 2018 and January 2019 in the…
Renewable energy researchers have been looking into how to cut CO2 emissions from processing industrial minerals like cement and lime, as these are responsible for a high share of the global greenhouse gas emissions. For every 10 tons of cement we produce, we release 9 tons of CO2, with much of that through the burning…
The forth issue of the “H2020 Projects Bulletin on Concentrated Solar Power” newsletter has been published. The joint Newsletter was launched in May 2017 by a joint initiative of H2020 CSP projects. The clustering has included new projects and this issue includes news on H2020 CSP projects from CAPTure, Hycool, INSHIP, MOSAIC, MUSTEC, Next-CSP, ORC-PLUS,…
An article related to the SOLPART project was published in the magazine “The energy of change”. The objective of the Solpart Project is to solarize industrial processes that have a high energy consumption and to reduce the impact associated to their life cycle. It presents the challenge of demonstrating a suitable pilot-scale solar reactor for…
SOLPART was exhibited at the 8th edition of ESOF (Euroscience Open Forum), which took place on 9-14 July 2018 in Toulouse, France.
On the 26th of June 2018, the SOLPART project organized its 30th month project meeting in Strasbourg France. This was the occasion to make a deep review of the work achieved so far and prepare for the EC review. In the meantime, the project partners visited the cold mock up of the pilot fluidized bed solar…
A workshop in the context of the SET Plan Action 6 WG on Energy Efficiency in Industry has been scheduled for June 27-28th, 2018 in Brussels. The SOLPART project was presented during this workshop. You can find the presentation here SOLPART SET Bruxelles28062018 The Implementation Plan of the SET Plan Action 6 on “Continuing efforts to make EU industry less…
According to the contractual agreement between the European Commission and A.SPIRE, the Commission will regularly monitor progress towards achieving the objectives of the SPIRE Public-Private Partnership (PPP). In particular, this monitoring will be done on the basis of evidence provided by A.SPIRE and SPIRE PROJECTS. This survey will have to be completed as an annual exercise. Since…
The SOLPART partners met in Alicante on the 16th of May 2018 to deal with the WP7 activities: Plant integration, scaling up, economic and risk assessment of the solar process. The aim of the meeting was: – Detailed presentation of a typical cement plant, components and flow sheet. – Visit of the plant – Discussion on…