AGENDA | 02.10 – 05.10.2018
IK4-TEKNIKER participates in SolarPACES 2018
From October 2 - 5, the city of Casablanca (Morocco) will host the 24th edition of the SolarPACES congress, the world's most important event dealing with solar concentration technologies (CSP), that every year brings together more than 500 researchers and representatives of this industry from nearly 40 countries to discuss outstanding technological developments, R&D activities and commercialisation actions in this sector.
IK4-TEKNIKER, that has been attending the event regularly since 2006, will have an outstanding presence thanks to its participation in the lecture programme and its own exhibition space from where it will showcase some of its most significant developments in the field of CSP.
An outstanding presence
The technology centre will give a presentation entitled “Integration of a non-immersion ultrasonic cleaning system in a solar concentrating field” describing the development of an ultrasonic low water consumption cleaning system (patented by the technology centre) that has been installed at heliostat field owned by CIEMAT (the solar platform in Almería).
The second paper, “SMARTCSP: The Industry 4.0 approach for an effective CSP cost reduction”, addresses the integration of processors, sensors and distributed and miniaturised components at CSP plants. This technology, related to Industry 4.0, will upgrade the degree of intelligence and autonomy of these plants to improve their performance and reduce costs. This new CSP plant concept will also optimise plant operation and maintenance.
The third presentation entitled "MOSAIC, a new CSP plant concept for the highest concentration ratios at the lowest cost”, proposes a new solar thermal power station concept based on fixed spherical concentrators arranged in a Fresnel configuration. The preliminary results of this modular configuration will be presented at the congress which, as it significantly reduces the number of drives required, is linked to a major cost reduction potential.
All developments described in the second and third papers have been carried out jointly by IK4-TEKNIKER and the National Centre for Renewables (CENER).
Lastly, IK4-TEKNIKER will present results obtained in different research actions in the event's poster section.
Further information
For more information, please visit the SolarPACES congress web site.
