During this 5 years, the project has continue its evolution and has notably advanced in all the tasks and ambition proposed; even though some restrictions significantly affected the project timing and original planification. Pandemic, global material shortage and inflation have limited at some point the commissioning activities, the equipment purchase and the travels for technical visits and meetings. Despite these deviations, the accomplishment of the project objectives is completed partially.
Among the main results in this Reporting Period is the design, commissioning and installation of RODA demo-site, in September 2019; which has been complemented with an ongoing optimization process to have the plant fully operative. The installation in RODA comprises a solar field and an absorption machine, so the solar field is used for cooling and heating purposes. Besides, great advances were developed in Martini & Rosso, were the TVP panels were installed, and the solar plant is being integrated with the rest of the production plant; which finished in 2020. Last demosite comissioned was Laurnadie-Canards d’Auzan, and the TVP panels installation which suffered some delays and a violent hailstorm.
Regarding the other solutions involved in the SHIP2FAIR project, overall, the Replication Tool and the Control Tool have fully developed and demonstrated. On the one hand, the four modules of the Replication Tool and their interactions were developed. The tool has been implemented succesfully in 14 industrial demosites, and has been demosntrated against the monitoring of the 3 demo plants realised in the project. D8.4 offers to the interested public the result of the 10 feasibility studies.
And on the other hand, the approach for the Control Tool, also module-based, has been further improved and each demo has been pre-assigned with their corresponding module level. The ICT supporting the infrastructure required to make an optimal solar heat process control has been deployed. New modules have been added to cope with specific demo site constrains and the first transmission tests have been carried out to test the Virtual Machine system.
Some activities regarding the education and training pillar have been developed. For instance, EUREC presented the proposal of master class, visits to the demo sites of the European Master in Renewable Energy and webinar series. In addition, a demo solar test loop is being built in Cadarache by CEA and TVP partners for dissemination and academic purposes.
Also, the project partners have engaged in promoting the project and their expected outcomes in different events. The dissemination and communication have been significantly increased during this period both in-person (when possible) and online events (conferences, presentations, posters, workshops solar-focused events, videos, radio interviews, press releases, etc.). Besides, several partners such as CIRCE, LINKS and BEST have published articles in scientific journals.
