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Installations solaires d'odeillo pour la recherche

Objective



Principal characteristics of the facility and of the support offered to users:
IMP Laboratory is, at ODEILLO, operator of the CNRS Solar Research Large Installations the MWFS, 1 Megawatt Solar Furnace, 1000 watt/cm2 at focal plane. The MSSFs, a versatile ensemble of 11 medium size solar furnaces, 1 to 6 kW power, achieving 1500 W/cm2 on 2 kW concentrators.
All areas are fully equiped with vacuum or controlled atmosphere chambers, irradiation monitoring, temporal shaping, performant instrumentation for experimental diagnostics for thermo-radiative properties measurements, up-to date instrumentation for materials analysis and characterisation. IMP has large expertise in materials transformation or elaboration and processes with concentrated solar radiation; similar field studies by other techniques, CVD, arcs, lasers, plasmas, experimental and modelling, are also on-going at ODEILLO.
Facility may provide a performant and versatile tool for novel methods and processes studies, on new performant materials, surface treatment, solid waste processing, high temperature thermo-chemistry, high intensity photo-chemistry . The high power installation also permit large scale simulation, at pre-industrial scale or, of materials and components in extreme conditions (near sun in space, re-entry situations). IMP has experienced, collaborations and facility access with external users from France, Europe and USA.
Quantity of access being offered and number of users who may benefit: The access offered is for a 3 years contract. 69 weeks of access (21 on Megawatt MWFS, 48 on Medium size MSSFs) for an estimated number of 29 scientists

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CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

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CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
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Avenue de Villeneuve 52
66860 PERPIGNAN
France
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