PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERIA

PSA and CIEMAT

Directorate General

Energy Department

DeputyDirector-General

National Laboratory of Fusion

Environment Department

Technology Department

Basic Research

Department

Security and PIMIC*

Department

Secretary General

Administration and

Personnel Directorate

PSA

BASIC DATA

• Goal: R&D in potential industrial applications of concentrating solar thermal energy and solar photochemistry.

• Location: Distributed over 103 hectares in the Tabernas Desert (Almería).

• Budget (2010-2012): Approximately 30 M€, of which 30% was new infrastructure. 50% came from own income.

• Human Resources: Approximately 130 persons. Auxiliary personnel represent 50%.

Test Facilities at PSA

1. Central receiver

5. Solar furnace

3. Direct steam generation4. Parabolic dish + Stirling

2. Parabolic-trough

7. Water desalination6. Water detoxification

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28. Energetic Efficiency in Buildings

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9. Fresnel Collectors

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10. Thermal storage and new fluids

Direction

Administration Dept. Direction’s Office

R&D UNITS PSA MANAGEMENT UNIT

Maintenance

IT Services

Civil Engineering

Instrumentation

Environmental Applications of Solar

Energy

ConcentratingSolar Systems

ORGANIZATION

OperationSolar Treatments of Water

CONCENTRATING SOLAR SYSTEMS

R & D UNIT

R+D Group on Medium Concentration

Power block

Steam generator

Auxiliary system

Solar collector field

293ºC

390ºC

104 bar / 371ºC

Most of the R+D activities are related to parabolic trough collectors, which is the CSP technology with the largest commercial deployment so far: 2387.5 MWe in operation in March of 2013 in USA (415 MWe) and Spain (1972.5 MWe).

This technology concerns medium-temperature applications: 125º< T < 450ºC

Objective: Develop innovative components for solar fields and competitive technologies for using solar energy in the mid-temperature range (125ºC-450ºC)

ANDASOL-I plant (Granada, Spain)

Objective: Develop knowledge, technologies and applications in the field of high-temperature solar energy and photon concentration.

CESA 1

This technology concerns high-temperature applications: T > 450ºC

Most of the R+D activities are related to Central Recievertechnology

R+D Group on High Concentration

Objective:

R+D Group Solar Fuels & Solarization of Industrial Processes

Development of solar thermochemical hydrogen production technologies, and other solar fuels

HYDROSOL

Campo de helióstatos

ReactorSolar

Convencional Texaco

Quench

Coque+

H2OH2+ rest gas + azufre + agua

Campo de helióstatos

ReactorSolar

Convencional Texaco

Quench

Coque+

H2OCampo de helióstatos

ReactorSolar

Convencional Texaco

Quench

Coque+

H2OH2+ rest gas + azufre + agua

Solar gasification of coke in a CIEMAT - PDVSA (Venezuela) - ETH (Suiza) project

R+D activities includes hydrogen production by eitherdecarbonization of hydrocarbons for hydrogen and carbon black production, or thermochemical dissociation of water

Application of concentrated solar radiation for industrial processes as drying and sintering of ceramics, waste treatment and any endothermal processes at high temperature (up to 2000ºC).

PSA Solar Furnace in operationPSA Solar Furnaces

R+D Group Solar Fuels & Solarization of Industrial Processes

Objective:

ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS UNIT

MAIN OBJECTIVE Technological development of the effective use

of solar energy into conventional or innovative desalination processes

TECHNOLOGIES UNDER DEVELOPMENT Solar assisted MED Double Effect Absorption Heat Pumps Membrane distillation Organic Rankine Cycles + Reverse Osmosis Hybrid Solar-Fossil concepts

Activities on Solar Desalination

SOLAR TREATMENT OF WATER UNIT

APPLICATIONS IN INDUSTRIAL AND MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS:

Toxic wastewaters Biodegradability enhacement Priority and emerging pollutants Polishing treatment for reuse of effluents from MWTPs Decontamination of rejection from membranes water treatment

PSA prototypes Industrial plant

WATER DETOXIFICATION & DISINFECTION

Adsorption of TiO2 on Fusarium spores

TiO2

WATER DETOXIFICATION & DISINFECTION

RESEARCH TOPICS: Inactivation of pathogens

present in drinking water in rural areas of developing countries Solar Disinfection

(SODIS process) Inactivation of

microbiological species present in irrigation water at hydroponic agriculture Associated technological

developments

LECE (Energy Testing of Building Components) consists of 4 16-m3 thermally insulated test cells with one wall prepared for testing architectural components.

These tests allow component thermal losses and some optical properties as transmissivity of light, etc., to be evaluated.

This laboratory has been quality-certified by ENAC

LECE: SOLAR ENERGY IN BUILDINGS

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