April 22nd: Save the date for the SCARABEUS dissemination day at University of Seville!

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The SCARABEUS consortium has organised a dissemination day to take place at University of Seville on April 22nd 2020. Co-located with the second progress meeting of the project, this dissemination day will be comprised of two activities: Networking Session on key enabling Concentrated Solar Power technologies in the morning, and Seminar on modelling and simulation of CSP plants in the afternoon.

 

The Networking Session is co-organised by the SCARABEUS and SOCRATCES consortia, both projects funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (sub-programme H2020-EU.3.3. addressing Societal Challenges concerning secure, clean and efficient energy. SOCRATCES makes use of calcium-looping technology to open a new pathway for next generation energy storage in CSP tower plants, technologically feasible, economically viable and sustainable. SCARABEUS relies on blended supercritical Carbon Dioxide used as the working fluid of a new generation of more efficient power cycles tailored to CSP tower plants, enabling a drastic reduction of installation and electricity costs.

 

The first panel in the Networking session reunites high-level representatives of the scientific community, industry and government. The speakers will share their view on the technology gaps to be filled and the foreseen industrial and legislative framework that will be needed to enable a massive deployment of renewable technologies. In the second panel, the coordinators of SCARABEUS and SOCRATCES will introduce the projects and talk with the audience about their main characteristics and objectives.

 

In the afternoon, the partners of SCARABEUS have organised a seminar covering the fundamentals of how to model the performance of Concentrating Solar Power plants using tower (central receiver) technology. The seminar will also include a module on Environmental Life Cycle Assessment, which is a critical aspect of any power generation technology.

 

Information about registration for these events (free of charge) and a final Agenda will follow soon!

 

Abengoa provides key technology to the new 50 MW solar tower CSP project in China

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Located in Haixi, Qinghai Province in Northwest China, Luneng Haixi 50MW Molten Salt Tower CSP Project is a crucial part of 700MW Luneng Haixi Geermu Multi-energy Complement Integration Optimization Pilot Project, which consists of 200MW PV, 400MW Wind, 50MW CSP and 50MW energy storage system (see more here). The turbine was successfully synchronized on September 20th 2019 (see more here).

1st Progress Meeting held at University of Brescia, Italy

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The 1st Progress Meeting of the SCARABEUS project was held on the 16th and 17th of October at the University of Brescia, Italy. In a wonderful academic environment, it was confirmed that SCARABEUS has started and warmed up successfully, and it is currently running at a very good pace.

All the milestones and deliverables have been achieved/delivered timely, according to the Gantt. Congratulations to all the partners and, specifically, to Giampaolo Manzolini for his exceptional coordination effort. Seville will host the next meeting in spring 2020.

 

Consortium members. From left: Martin White (City University), Xun Liao (Quantis), Xavier Guerif (Kelvion), David Sánchez (University of Seville), Andreas Werner (TU Wien), Abubakr Ayub (University of Brescia), Viktoria Illyes (TU Wien), Giampaolo Manzolini (Politecnico di Milano), Martina Fantini (LEAP), Paolo Iora (University of Brescia), Daniele di Bona (LEAP), Costante Invernizzi (University of Brecia), Marco Binotti (Politecnico di Milano), Dario Rizzi (Exergy), Gioele di Marcoberardino (University of Brescia), Modestino Savoia (University of Brescia), Adbulnaser Sayma (City University)

 

Giampaolo Manzolini (Project coordinator) and David Sánchez (WP5 leader) scheduling upcoming activities in Work Package 5.

Proceedings of the 3rd European sCO2 conference held in Paris already available

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The presentations delivered at the 3rd European sCO2 conference in Paris last month (September) are now available at the conference website (link). Please follow this link to retrieve the presentation of the SCARABEUS project or else visit the repository at the conference website and find your way to presentation id. 141. The presentation can also be downloaded from the SCARABEUS website (link).

SCARABEUS presented at the H2020 InfoDay for Societal Challenge 3–Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy organized at University of Seville, Spain

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