SUN-to-LIQUID II

Like last year, a group of students from the Master’s Degree in Renewable Energies and Energy Market (MERME) of the Escuela de Organización Industrial visited SUN-to-LIQUID II partner IMDEA Energy facilities located in Móstoles. The IMDEA premises hosts the solar plant and its very-high concentration solar tower where the SUN-to-LIQUID II project integrated-on-sun validation is realized. ? The students benefitted from a presentation of Manuel Romero, researcher at the High Temperature Processes Unit and Deputy Director of the Institute. The presentation focused on the different technologies developed in SUN-to-LIQUID II project as well as in the previous project SUN-to-LIQUID.

The SUN-to-LIQUID II partnership: spotlight on L-up In this series of posts, we will discover each of the six partners of the consortium. Let’s meet our last private company partner today: L-up, one of the leading consulting companies with an expertise dedicated to European R&D funding programmes. ?? L-up is a consulting agency specialised in national and European R&D funding programmes with longstanding experience in collaborative R&D projects, especially in high-tech areas such as transport, ICT, security, energy, materials, space or circular economy. ? ?? Since 2001, L-up has been advising companies – from SMEs to large enterprises – as well as research bodies. L-UP has accompanied more than 250 projects within the FP6, FP7, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes. ? ?? L-up supports the general management and coordination and supervises dissemination, communication and exploitation activities. ? L-UP assets: ·???????Strong expertise in supporting project coordination, monitoring and reporting. ·???????Creation of communication and dissemination materials. ?? Julie CHUPIN Mathieu Lions ?? #horizoneurope #RenewableEnergy #transportation #aviation #emissionreduction #hydrocarbons #sustainablefuel #solarfuel #renewablefuel #concentratedsolarenergy #heatrecovery #CINEA ? ? ?

The SUN-to-LIQUID II partnership: spotlight on Synhelion In this series of posts, we will discover each of the six partners of the consortium. Let’s meet our second industrial partner today: Synhelion, a cleantech company that has developed a unique technology to produce sustainable fuels from solar energy. ?? Synhelion is a spin-off company from ETH Zürich that is commercializing solar thermochemical fuels to defossilize transportation. Synhelion’s solar fuels can directly replace fossil fuels as they are fully compatible with the existing global infrastructure. Synhelion’s unique technology uses solar heat to turn CO2 and H20 into renewable fuels. As Synhelion’s renewable fuels close the carbon cycle, they drive a world connected by clean, sustainable transportation. ? ?? In the SUN-to-LIQUID II project, Synhelion leads the task of exploitation and roadmap of the technology, and paves the way for commercialization of the technology. Synhelion also contributes to the design and installation of the entire reactor heat recuperator system. Additionally, Synhelion performs the exploitation study and contributes to the techno-economic, environmental and social analyses led by Bauhaus Luftfahrt. ? Synhelion assets: ·???????Strong expertise in solar reactor technology, thermal energy storage, integration, and scale-up of solar fuel technologies. ·???????Techno-economic and life-cycle analyses for various alternative fuel pathways. ·???????Successful demonstration of solar fuel technology on an industrial scale. ? Christoph Falter Simon Ackermann ? #horizoneurope #RenewableEnergy #transportation #aviation #emissionreduction #hydrocarbons #sustainablefuel #solarfuel #renewablefuel #concentratedsolarenergy #heatrecovery #synhelion #CINEA

The SUN-to-LIQUID II partnership: spotlight on HyGear In this series of posts, we will discover each of the six partners of the consortium. Let’s meet our first industrial partner today: HyGear, a pioneer in hydrogen technology and worldwide market leader in on-site hydrogen generation. ?? Started in 2002, HyGear BV is a developer and manufacturer of decentralized unique installations for hydrogen production, purification and recycling plus carbon capture systems. Its unique and compact design for hydrogen solutions, makes it cost effective, most reliable, safe and sustainable. HyGear has flexible engineering skills, prototyping and testing capabilities. A main focus for HyGear is Engineering for Sustainable Growth. ? ??In the project, HyGear leads the development of the gas-to-liquid subsystem for the conversion of gases to liquids. Additionally, it designs a viable commercial scale plant for future applications. ? HyGear assets: ·???????Expertise in the field of chemical engineering, especially small-scale conversion of gas-to-liquid. HyGear reactor technology enables them to conduct Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and other equally demanding synthesis gas reactions in a highly efficient manner. ·???????Expertise in prototype system design, manufacture and assembly, as well as scale-up of prototypes. ? Hans ten Dam Dick Lieftink ? #horizoneurope #RenewableEnergy #transportation #aviation #emissionreduction #hydrocarbons #sustainablefuel #solarfuel #renewablefuel #concentratedsolarenergy #heatrecovery #CINEA

The SUN-to-LIQUID II partnership: spotlight on the German Aerospace Center (DLR) In this series of posts, we will discover each of the six partners of the consortium. Let’s meet our second research centre partner today: the German Aerospace Center (DLR), one of the leading aerospace RTO in the world. ?? The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is the national aeronautics and space research center of Germany. Its extensive research and development work in aeronautics, space, energy, transport and security is integrated into national and international cooperative ventures. ? ?? In the project SUN-to-LIQUID II, DLR leads the central task of solar reactor development, which includes the assessment of reactor and heat recuperation concepts, the design and construction of an integrated reactor-heat recuperator system, and its numerical modelling. Furthermore, DLR installs and tests the reactor-recuperator system in the solar facility at IMDEA Energy, integrates an advanced flux measurement system and contributes to the scale-up study. ? DLR assets: - Strong expertise in the field of concentrating solar technologies, - More than 20 years of experience in developing and testing reactors for solar thermochemistry, - Operator of large-scale research infrastructures such as the Solar Towers Jülich or Synlight, the world’s largest artificial sun. Martin ROEB ? #horizoneurope #RenewableEnergy #transportation #aviation #emissionreduction #hydrocarbons #sustainablefuel #solarfuel #renewablefuel #concentratedsolarenergy #heatrecovery #CINEA ?

On the 12th of December, the Forum of National Technology Platforms for Energy was held in Madrid, Spain, bringing together experts, institutions and companies in the field of sustainable energy technologies. Manuel Romero from IMDEA Energy participated as invited keynote speaker on behalf of the Spanish Plataforma Tecnológica SOLAR CONCENTRA and the industrial association Protermosolar. He presented the SUN-to-LIQUID II project, a pioneering initiative that uses concentrated solar power to produce hydrogen and sustainable fuels for aviation. #horizoneurope #RenewableEnergy #emissionreduction #hydrocarbons #solarfuel #concentratedsolarenergy #heatrecovery #CINEA

The SUN-to-LIQUID II partnership: spotlight on Fundación IMDEA Energía In this series of posts, we will discover each of the six consortium partners. Let’s meet our first research center today: Fundación IMDEA Energía, one of the leading #renewableenergy RTO in the world. ?? Fundación IMDEA Energía (IMDEA Energy) operates as a non-profit foundation developing world-class R&D in the field of clean and renewable energy technologies. In recognition of its scientific excellence, IMDEA Energy obtained in 2020 the accreditation ‘María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence’, granted by the Spanish State Research Agency. The high temperature processes unit (HTPU) is leader in the field of concentrating solar power to fuels. ?? IMDEA Energy develops and tests novel 3D-printed structured redox materials for the solar reactor and scales up the fabrication to a power level of 50 kW, in collaboration with German Aerospace Center (DLR). IMDEA Energy is also responsible for the integrated-on-sun validation at its solar field located in the Technology Park in Móstoles, Spain. Hence, its role is to monitor the solar concentrating system and timely adjust it, when necessary, for an enhanced performance and increased focus stability and accuracy. Finally, IMDEA Energy contributes to the techno-economic, environmental and social analyses led by Bauhaus Luftfahrt. ? IMDEA Energy assets: ·???????Cutting-edge research and expertise in the field of solar thermochemistry, concentrating solar power, solar fuels and chemicals, ·???????Strong background on optics, heat and mass transfer, solarization of components and testing of solar concentrating systems. ? ? Manuel Romero Jose Gonzalez-Aguilar Eloísa Mateos Sevilla Lorena Martínez Esquinas ? #horizoneurope #RenewableEnergy #transportation #aviation #emissionreduction #hydrocarbons #sustainablefuel #solarfuel #renewablefuel #concentratedsolarenergy #heatrecovery #CINEA

SUN-to-LIQUID II was present at the #MATSUS24 conference in Lausanne last week. Manuel Romero presented the project and the advances and challenges in the development of redox materials for thermochemical solar fuels production. The results presented originated from educational cooperation between Manuel Romero and Jose Gonzalez-Aguilar, IMDEA Energy and Aldo Steinfeld, ETH Zürich, as well as from partnerships of the former EU and Swiss SERI co-funded H2020 project SUN-to-LIQUID (EU GA 654408) and the current EU and Swiss SERI co-funded HE project SUN-to-LIQUID II. ? #horizoneurope #RenewableEnergy #emissionreduction #hydrocarbons #solarfuel #concentratedsolarenergy #heatrecovery #CINEA

The third General Assembly of the EU project SUN-to-LIQUID II was held on October 22nd and 23rd, 2024. It was organized in the premises of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zürich) and welcomed by Aldo Steinfeld in his role as Special Expert Advisor for the project and as key innovator in the sector of solar reactor technology. The meeting was jointly organized by ETH Zürich (Aldo Steinfeld) & Synhelion (Christoph Falter). ? “One key of success of direct solar energy utilization for high-temperature applications lies in the ability to intelligently and efficiently manage heat exchange and storage at such high temperatures. We had a very fruitful meeting with cutting-edge research presentations to attain our ambitious performance target in SUN-to-LIQUID II. In addition, a spectrum of activities to move the entire field forward was presented.” said Andreas Sizmann, the project coordinator. ? ? #horizoneurope #RenewableEnergy #transportation #emissionreduction #hydrocarbons #sustainablefuel #solarfuel #renewablefuel #concentratedsolarenergy #heatrecovery #CINEA

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