Advanced materials solutions for next generation high efficiency concentrated solar power (CSP) tower systems

Project Information

NEXTOWER

Grant agreement ID: 721045

DOI

10.3030/721045

Project closed

EC signature date 14 December 2016

Start date 1 January 2017

End date 30 June 2021

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Advanced materials

Total cost

€ 6 221 105,19

EU contribution

€ 4 981 304,32

Coordinated by

AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE
Italy

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

NEXTOWER Major and Final Dissemination Events

Dissemination events to showcase the results achievedThematic sectionsworkshops at selected conferences whihc include SUSTAINABLEPLACES 2019 SOLAPACES 2020 and EEEIC 2020 with indexed proceedings

NEXTOWER Satellite Dissemination Events at EERA and ETN

A thematic workshop to showcase the project results within EERA eventcrosscutting to JPNM for dissemination to ESNII nuclear community and to ETN for dissemination to turbine community

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

High-Performance SiC–Based Solar Receivers for CSP: Component Manufacturing and Joining

Author(s): Valentina Casalegno, Luca Ferrari, Maria Jimenez Fuentes, Alessandro De Zanet, Sandro Gianella, Monica Ferraris, Victor M. Candelario
Published in: Materials, Issue 14/16, 2021, Page(s) 4687, ISSN 1996-1944
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/ma14164687

Overview of the Enablers and Barriers for a Wider Deployment of CSP Tower Technology in Europe

Author(s): Fabio Maria Aprà, Sander Smit, Raymond Sterling, Tatiana Loureiro
Published in: Clean Technologies, Issue 3/2, 2021, Page(s) 377-394, ISSN 2571-8797
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cleantechnol3020021

Conceptual Design of the CSP Lead Demonstrator SOLEAD

Author(s): I. Di Piazza, A. Tincani, R. Marinari, M. Valdiserri, S. Bassini, A. Rinaldi, L. Turchetti, M. Serra, A. Antonelli, D. Delfino
Published in: Advanced Materials Letters, Issue 11/6, 2020, Page(s) 20061531-20061531, ISSN 0976-3961
Publisher: VBRI Press

Joining of SiC, alumina, and mullite by the Refractory Metal—Wrap pressure‐less process

Author(s): Pardeep Kumar Gianchandani, Valentina Casalegno, Stefano De la Pierre des Ambrois, Milena Salvo, Giulia De Aloysio, Luca Laghi, Monica Ferraris
Published in: International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology, Issue 17/3, 2020, Page(s) 980-989, ISSN 1546-542X
Publisher: American Ceramic Society
DOI: 10.1111/ijac.13477

Next Generation of Concentrated Solar Power Technologies

Author(s): Tatiana Loureiro, Raymond Sterling, Claudio Testani, Elena Torralba-Calleja, Luca Turchetti, Manuel Blanco, Alain Ferriere, Fabrizio Perrotta
Published in: Proceedings, Issue 20/1, 2019, Page(s) 7, ISSN 2504-3900
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/proceedings2019020007

Materials for High Temperature Liquid Lead Storage for Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Air Tower Systems

Author(s): Antonio Rinaldi, Giuseppe Barbieri, Eduard Kosykh, Peter Szakalos, Claudio Testani
Published in: Materials, Issue 14/12, 2021, Page(s) 3261, ISSN 1996-1944
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/ma14123261

Corrosion Studies of Low-Alloyed FeCrAl Steels in Liquid Lead at 750 °C

Author(s): Peter Dömstedt, Mats Lundberg, Peter Szakalos
Published in: Oxidation of Metals, Issue 91/3-4, 2019, Page(s) 511-524, ISSN 0030-770X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11085-019-09896-z

Characterization of Solar-Aged Porous Silicon Carbide for Concentrated Solar Power Receivers

Author(s): Inmaculada Cañadas, Victor M. Candelario, Giulia De Aloysio, Jesús Fernández, Luca Laghi, Santiago Cuesta-López, Yang Chen, T. James Marrow, Antonio Rinaldi, Ana Mariblanca Sanchez, Angelo Tatì, Claudio Testani
Published in: Materials, Issue 14/16, 2021, Page(s) 4627, ISSN 1996-1944
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/ma14164627