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Application of Solar Thermal Energy to Processes

Descripción del proyecto

Calentar los procesos industriales mediante la energía solar

El calentamiento para procesos industriales representa la mayor parte de la demanda energética del sector de la fabricación. Sin embargo, los sistemas de calefacción actuales presentan ciertos límites, como el uso de combustibles fósiles. El objetivo del proyecto ASTEP, financiado con fondos europeos, es superar estos inconvenientes al desarrollar un concepto innovador de calefacción solar para los procesos industriales. Se combinará un colector solar de tipo Fresnel y un almacenamiento de energía térmica basados en materiales de cambio de fase con técnicas de mejora de la transferencia de calor activa y pasiva, que serán integradas en el sistema de control para mantener un servicio continuo. Este sistema innovador será capaz de cubrir un porcentaje significativo de la demanda termoenergética de la industria transformadora a temperaturas y latitudes donde han fallado los conceptos actuales. El proyecto proporcionará una alternativa competitiva al consumo de combustibles fósiles.

Objetivo

Application of Solar Thermal Energy to Processes (ASTEP) will create a new innovative Solar Heating for Industrial Processes (SHIP) concept focused on overcoming the current limitations of these systems. This solution is based on modular and flexible integration of two innovative designs for the solar collector (SunDial) and the Thermal Energy Storage (TES, based on Phase Change Materials, PCM) integrated via a control system which will allow flexible operation to maintain continuous service against the unpredictable nature of the solar source and partially during night operation. ASTEP will demonstrate its capability to cover a substantial part of the heat demand of the process industry at temperatures above 150 ºC and for latitudes where current designs are not able to supply it. Its modularity and compactness will also enable easy installation and repair with reduced space requirements, while most of components can be sourced locally. The ASTEP`s process integration will allow full compatibility with the existing systems of potential end-users of SHIP. These aspects will provide a very competitive solution to substitute fossil fuel consumption. The developed solar concept will be tested at two industrial sites to prove the objective’s target of TRL5. Life Cycle Analysis will be included to validate and demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed technologies. The first Industrial Site of the proposal is the world’s leading steel company, ArcelorMittal, with a heating demand above 220 ºC for a factory located at a latitude of 47.1 N (Iasi, Romania). The second site is the dairy company MANDREKAS, located at a latitude of 37.93 N (Corinth, Greece) with a heating demand for steam at 175 ºC and a cooling demand at 5 ºC. These test locations will validate the ASTEP solution for a substantial part of the potential requirements of industrial heating and cooling demand of the European Union (EU28), which is estimated at approximately 72 TWh per year

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-LC-SC3-2018-2019-2020

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Convocatoria de subcontratación

H2020-LC-SC3-2019-NZE-RES-CC

Régimen de financiación

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinador

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACION A DISTANCIA
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 736 250,00
Dirección
CALLE BRAVO MURILLO 38 PLANTA 7
28015 Madrid
España

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Región
Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 736 250,00

Participantes (18)