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AT A GLANCE Project Information
Project Title: Industrial Process Heat by Solar Collectors (InSun)
Project Objective: The main idea of InSun is to demonstrate the reliability and quality of large scale solar thermal systems for different types of industrial process heat applications on medium and high temperature levels, each system with a maximum heating power of 1 MW.
Project Duration and Timing: 1st April 2012 – 30 September 2015, 42 Months
Solar collectors
Project Funding: EU FP7 (European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No. ENER/ FP7/296009/InSun). Total EU contribution € 4.062.623,96
Project Partners: University of Applied Sciences HFT Stuttgart, GERMANY EURAC research, ITALY SOLERA GmbH, GERMANY Laterizi Gambettola srl, ITALY Fleischwaren Berger GmbH & Co. KG, AUSTRIA S.O.L.I.D. GmbH, AUSTRIA
Encouraging deployment in industry Missing
standards (especially for
concentrating collectors) and the large uncertainty of system integration costs are the main
bottlenecks for fast system
deployment in the industrial sector. To help this situation, the InSun project has provided significant input to the standardisation
process in terms of
construction, integration and dimensioning of this young and innovative technology that has been supported by the foundation of a special interest group for lobbying work including key members of
the relevant
collector, producers and research organisations. “Providing these standards will allow industry to deploy large scale solar thermal systems with a much higher degree of certainty about what the costs are and what they will be getting,” explains Pietruschka. “These types of reassurances are very helpful in encouraging deployment of technologies.” InSun has an industrial driven
management board that has ensured the strong and continuous participation of the
30
industrial partners involved. “We wanted to ensure that the work we’d done made its way to the relevant people,” says Pietruschka. “This has been achieved partly through two international expert InSun workshops and further workshop participation of InSun members. These workshops have helped describe our work as well as brought
in
other relevant experts from the field.” Altogether, InSun has contributed significantly to the maturation of the technology, but has also showed that except for special applications in the sunbelt region, funding schemes are still needed on a national and European level to achieve fast market penetration, to create further trust in the technology, and to further reduce system costs and thereby payback times.
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The InSun project has received funding from the
European
Programme for development
and Union’s research, Seventh technological demonstration under
grant agreement No. ENER/FP7/296009/ InSun
Insight Publishers | Projects InSun MAIN CONTACT
Dr. Dirk Pietruschka Dr. Dirk Pietruschka is managing director of the research institute IAF at University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, Germany. He holds a master degree in renewable energy systems and did his PhD in the field of simulation based control optimization of solar cooling systems. He coordinates the FP7 InSun project.
Contact: Tel: +49 (0)711 8926 2674 Email:
dirk.pietruschka@hft-stuttgart.de Web:
www.fp7-insun.eu
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