Consolidation in Space Aeronautics and Defense...Marian Fernández Marisa de la Miyar Nerea Bilbao...

Consolidation in

Space Aeronauticsand Defense

TRIBUNEJuan Tomás Hernani General Secretary of Innovation

TECHNOLOGYSingle - Tank system for thermal storage in thermosolar plants

CIVILSafety L9projectSENER’s work on RAMS: reliability engineering

“I see the universe getting a little bit smaller”

The way to see the futureAerospace

One way to see the future is to look at the stars. This is the

only way to understand SENER's mission in aerospace

engineering. That mission is to bring the universe within our

grasp. Actually we have facilitated the flight of satellites and

spacecrafts even before Man set foot on the moon. We have

been conquering the heavens, carried by the wings of our

aeronautical solutions. And we have come back down to

earth to develop concentrated photovoltaic technologies and

products, and defence and security technologies. And even

make a deeper exploration of human beings possible due to

our advances in medical robotics, expanding the possibilities

of surgery.

ABU DHABI ALGIER BARCELONA ILBAO BUENOS AIRE LISBO MADRI MEXICO CITY OKAYAMA SAN FRANCISCO EVILL VALENCIA WARSAW

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04 Article Consolidation in Space, Aeronautics and Defense.

08 Interview Rafael Quintana, General Manager of SENER’s Aerospace Strategic Business Unit.

10 Tribune Juan Tomás Hernani, General Secretary of Innovation.

11 Up-to-date Space Aeronautics and Vehicles Defense and Security New Markets Civil Architecture Power and Process Marine Group

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34 Technology Single - Tank system for thermal storage in thermosolar plants.

36 In Brief

CONTRIBUTORS:Carolina VelezErnesto SandulliFernando QuintanaFrancesc GallartFrancisco AntolinGuillermo DierssenIgnacio PliegoJavier AguirreJavier ViñalsJoaquín BotellaJordi RedóJosep María EscuerMaite GómezMarian FernándezMarisa de la MiyarNerea BilbaoNuria NogueraÓscar JuliàÓscar SanjuanRebeca ArrieroRicardo CasalSergio RellosoSoledad GarridoSosthene Ndikuriyo Verónica Alonso andYolanda Gutiérrez.

PUBLISHING TEAM: Communication SENER.

EDITORIAL STAFF:Oihana Casas, Mariana Fernández, Pilar García, Rosana Madroñal and Cristina Vidal.

GRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION:Oihana Casas, Pilar García, Lourdes Olabarria and Dorleta Uraga.

DESIGN AND LAYOUT:KAIXO Taller de diseño gráfico.

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CIVIL: The Inelfe tunnel.

On the cover: artistic view of Proba 3 Space Mission. Copyright ESA.

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he projects that SENER is performing nowadays in the Aerospace market are an example of the increasing level of

responsibility the company has been assuming. At the present time, SENER in all of its sectors is addressing increasingly complex systems and obtaining higher priced contracts.

In the Space industry, SENER is the byword for excellence in precision mechanisms: by supplying the full system of mid and high-range antennas for the Beppi Colombo satellite,

which requires the ability to function in pronounced temperature gradients; in the field of optical payloads, such as the UV camera for the World Space Observatory, a collaborative project between Spain and Russia where SENER will be responsible for delivering the entire camera which will later be integrated into the satellite; and in Guidance, Navigation and Control systems (GNC), where SENER will be responsible for the entire Proba-3 mission, in addition to the specific activities of NTE-SENER in Space.

In the field of Defense, SENER has achieved milestones such as becoming the industry leader in missile subsystems: supplying Taurus missiles for the Spanish Air Force, as the prime contractor for the project completed in 2010; participating as the design authority for the actuator system for IRIS-T and Meteor; and currently being involved in the promotion of the future air defense system for the Spanish Army and Air Force, entitled Sagitario.

In Aeronautics and Vehicles, SENER has the capability to deliver detailed designs for complete automotive and rail vehicles, as well as for large installations for complex tooling for aeronautical production lines.

Lastly, in solar applications, over the last two years SENER has supplied over 3,500 actuators for precision solar tracking for applications in the solar power market, for both solar and photovoltaic power plants, making

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Consolidation in Space, Aeronautics and Defense

With over forty years’ experience in the Aerospace industry, SENER has carved a niche for itself in all of the sectors of this demanding market. Currently, SENER is seeking a starring role, taking charge of large projects and competing on an international level on all fronts.


it a leader in this market. And in biomedical technology and devices, SENER, through NTE-SENER, has developed two products that will soon be marketed: a robot assistant for laparoscopic surgery and an automatic seeding system for Petri dishes for analyses, both of which are in the medical testing phase.

A path marked by diversificationSENER’s foray into the Aerospace market dates back to 1967, when the company won an international competition held by the ESRO (the precursor to the European Space Agency) for the design and construction of a launch tower in Kiruna, Sweden. After this debut, SENER gained quick access to the flight segment for space projects, and in the 80’s joined the Eurojet Consortium to develop the motor for the Eurofighter European fighter aircraft. Based on this project, which led to the creation of the company Industria de Turbopropulsores (ITP), SENER entered the field of Aeronautics. At the dawn of the 21st Century, SENER made the decision to extend its activities from developing and supplying Actuator and Control Systems to the Space industry, where an extremely limited amount of units are produced, to the fields of Aeronautics and Defense. where the production quantities are larger. This decision implied taking a step toward mass production of the products that led in the previous

decade to specialization among the strategic Defense sectors, such as missiles. Along with this continuous growth in the strategic sectors of the Aerospace area, starting in 2008 SENER decided to boost its capacity in the fields of Biomedicine and Solar Industry.

43 years after Kiruna, SENER is a trailblazer and an industry paradigm in the Space, Defense, Aeronautics and Vehicular sectors, both in Spain and internationally. SENER, since its beginnings, has always been competing in this global market, supplying services and products to what are recognized as the ‘prime contractors’. Nevertheless, in its most recent projects, SENER has become a prime contractor itself, a strategy that is in line with its last Strategic Plan, for 2008-10, which recently concluded.

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Moving up the value chainIn its Strategic Plan for 2008-2010, SENER made a decision to increase its level of responsibility in its aerospace projects, accepting larger contracts. This involved taking on challenges in an already full system instead of limiting itself to components, and focusing its line of business on product orientation.

And this is exactly what they did: over the last three years SENER has been able to win and execute high-level contracts, such as the Attitude and Orbit Control Systems (AOCS) of Herschel and Planck, where it was the prime contractor for the system, and the primary payload for the SEOSAT satellite, a high resolution camera.

In Defense, it has been the head design authority for missile subsystems and delivery of Taurus missiles to the Air Force as prime contractor. And in Aeronautics and Vehicles, SENER has evolved toward delivering large complex tooling packages in turn-key projects that require a higher level of responsibility and the ability to acquire significant supplies.

This increase of responsibility in traditional markets has combined with the opening of new markets which, while developed for the mid to long term, have also set certain trends throughout this latest strategic plan: thanks to the mass production capacities SENER has acquired in the defense market, the company also began mass production of products for the Solar Power industry. In this field, SENER is marketing a high precision tracking mechanism called MASS, which is one of the best selling mechanisms in concentrated solar power plants. Meanwhile, over the last three years SENER has burst onto the biomedical system scene, a market with a high technological content where it had already made significant engineering developments and which requires the type of products developed by its Aerospace Business Unit. To this end, SENER acquired the instrumentation and space division of the company NTE, integrating its team into the NTE-SENER brand which specializes in Biomedical and Space systems, and which develops life and science support projects, particularly for large scientific land installations.

The growth in contracts and capacity from the last Strategic Plan involved practically doubling the company’s budget; currently, SENER’s Aerospace Business Unit has a billing volume of over 120 million euros and employs over 500 individuals. This is a trend that SENER expects to continue in its next Strategic Plan (for 2011-13), albeit to a more moderate extent due to the current contraction of the global market. At any rate, there are prospects for growth in all of the company’s areas, including in its new market niches.

Facility growthThe changes that have taken place over the last ten years due to entering into production contracts have implied launching new manufacturing and mass-production facilities. Along with the traditional clean rooms and laboratories necessary for space activities, in recent years SENER has built buildings for the Integration

PROJECT LEADER OF PROBA-3. SENER is prime contractor for the Proba-3 formation flying mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). The company has recently been awarded the contract for Phase B, meaning that the engineering firm will be responsible of conducting the project, which will conclude with the verification of the system in orbit. It is also the first Spanish company to lead a complete ESA mission.Proba-3 is a demonstration mission for the technology required for formation flying. Starting with two Proba mini-

satellites, which will be placed in a highly eccentric orbit around the Earth, various experimental maneuvers will be performed and measurements acquired to evaluate the benefits of the new equipment that this mission requires. The mission will also be able to evaluate the precision and stability of these maneuvers in the relative position of both spacecrafts. In addition, the mission will incorporate a coronagraph (an instrument for analyzing the solar corona) that will also benefit from the possibilities that Proba-3 is providing, by separating the

solar occulter and the instrument by around 150 meters. SENER has been a part of this program since 2007, with the start of the bridging phase to consolidate the initial project studies (Phase A), which go back to 2006. In that initial participation phase, SENER led the team in charge of the Formation Flying Management and the Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) system. In November 2009, negotiations began for SENER to assume leadership of the project, which culminated in the signature of the Phase B contract last March 29th.

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production and positioning cell for

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and Test Division: facilities located in Madrid and Barcelona that will make it possible to tackle the integration of entire systems instead of just components. Currently, certain large volume projects are being conducted in these facilities, which were specifically designed to be expandable so as to take on larger projects. For example, SENER’s office complex in Barcelona will have facilities for both the work that SENER performs in Aeronautics and Vehicles development and for the products and activities of NTE-SENER. With these foundations, the company can face future challenges with confidence.

Consolidation over the next three yearsThe future of SENER’s Aerospace Business Unit will be one of continued growth in all sectors of the Aerospace market. In the Space sector, SENER aims at being the first company to develop components and systems for the f light segment in the Spanish industry, and one of the leading companies in the international market for this type of systems, in this sector’s three areas of activity: precision mechanisms; Guidance, Navigation and Control systems (GNC); and optical payloads. In Defense, SENER is very close to being the number one missile company in Spain, both due to its tireless participation in international

projects and its stature as a reference industry in missile subsystems, such as the ability to provide complete systems to the Ministry of Defense. In Aeronautics and Vehicles, SENER’s activity related to vehicles continues to grow, and its main objective is to diversify both its customer base and its line of complex tools, with new products and new markets so as to create facilities outside of Spain with other industrial partners. Lastly, in medical systems and products for the Solar Industry, SENER expects further expansion in the medium and long term, with the developments it now has in the pipeline framed within a specific long-term strategic plan.

By nature, all of these markets are highly competitive, global and marked by a constant search for innovative solutions. SENER’s consolidation in all of them, where it has achieved a steady increase in the level of the responsibility of its contracts, is a testimony to the company’s know-how and commercial competence.

43 years after Kiruna, SENER is a reference industry and a centre of excellence in the Space, Defense and Aeronautics and Vehicles sectors, both in Spain and internationally.

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We are looking for contracts with greater responsibilities in our three sectors of activityRafael QuintanaGeneral Manager of SENER’s Aerospace Strategic Business Unit.

Question: SENER has been working in the Aerospace industry for 43 years, where it has conquered the Space, Defense and Aeronautics and Vehicles markets, how has this diversification been possible?

Rafael Quintana: SENER has grown in these areas thanks to the capabilities inherent to its structure: SENER is not organized by market, but rather by technology. Thus, in this diversification process, it has reused existing technology, applying it to other markets and other products, while in some cases it had to strengthen them and in others it wasn’t necessary to acquire new technology, as in the case of optics and production skills. Organizing the company this way, by technology, is what makes SENER a unique company with its multidisciplinary character. In fact, SENER is one of the few Spanish companies – they can be counted on one hand – that has activities in the three sectors: Aeronautics, Space and Defense. Our engineers migrate from one sector to another by participating in projects for Space, Defense and Aeronautics and Vehicles.Q.: The product orientation is increasingly clearer; why is that so?

R.Q.: Ten years ago SENER, which was known in the Aerospace market

as an engineering company, made a conscious decision to orient itself toward mass production, something which was already occurring in the Space sector, but not to any great extent. This decision was in response to the fact that the three traditional markets of the Aerospace Industry (Aeronautics and Vehicles, Defense and Space) don’t demand engineering, but rather products. In this way, the company was equipped with production centres, Integration and Test centres, and focused its activities on developing the disciplines necessary for being able to deliver a mass-produced product to the market: it took control of the supply chain and took charge of the whole process, from initial product configuration to sales, production, testing, and so on. We continued to adapt ourselves to give the markets the products they were demanding. Q.: Has the recent economic crisis affected us?

R.Q.: Without a doubt; it’s a situation that concerns us. To a certain degree we depend on institutional budgets, like that of the European Space Agency. However, the Space sector is seeing continuity, being a strategic sector for technical and industrial development in

Spain. The Defense market in Spain is also suffering budget cuts. This situation affects SENER indirectly, first of all because we still have a significant job load, coming from long term production contracts we were awarded years ago, which allow us to keep our activity level up. Secondly, because we are present in international markets: for example, the contracts in the missile market which are one of SENER’s specialties include international programs which also offer a significant importing opportunity. In fact, we are currently producing units to export to Norway, Poland, South Africa, and Austria, among other countries. The conclusion we’ve been able to draw from this global crisis is that we need to move into the export market to internationalize our production activity itself. This is not just about exporting to other markets, but also developing our activities in other countries. This objective is part of the Strategic Plan for 2011-2013 that has just begun. Q.: To what degree can the Aerospace Strategic Business Unit benefit from SENER’s internationalization?

R.Q.: Our strategy is to follow the SENER Group in its international development, which is becoming very


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important, and in exporting. The Aerospace Strategic Business Unit has thus identified the following countries as areas for expansion: in Europe, Poland, a country that is present in the Aeronautics and Defense markets and wants to develop a Space program, and where SENER has an operational division; in the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates, where we also have an office and some very important industrial and commercial connections with joint companies in other fields of activity, as well as in neighboring countries; in South America, Brazil in one of our target markets, since it has significant aeronautic and defense activity and also has a space program. We’re trying to find activities that we can perform in these countries by transferring technology from the divisions in Spain to the international divisions, in order to have the international ones execute projects both in their own markets and in the international market. This is one of the objectives of the next Strategic Plan 2011-2013.

In Defense, the domestic market has budget constraints, but it is crucial for the support it lends to our export and internationalization activities: the domestic market makes it possible for the industry to become engaged with new products that later find continuity within the international market through exporting. In other words, we need the

support of the domestic market to have credibility beyond our borders.

Finally, SENER’s engineering and production fall under the SENER Group, and in this sense, the skills and means of production of ITP, for example, can help SENER enter other markets. SENER Group’s vision is becoming more and more present in the global strategy of all of its business areas and will help us find mechanisms for collaboration in the short term: joint opportunities, shared access to clients and markets, strategic supplies of mutual information, etc., which will undoubtedly benefit the Group.

Q.: Where is SENER currently situated in the international Aerospace sector, and where would it like to be situated in the future?

R.Q.: Today SENER is an industry leader in Space, Aeronautics and Vehicles and Defense. In the future, the company would like to consolidate its position in these three sectors in the international market by obtaining contracts with greater responsibilities, in addition to continuing its expansion into new markets. All of these fields are competitive by nature, and the competition is international; but SENER since the beginning has been used to working in these conditions, and is currently working successfully in all of these markets.

I’d say that the medium-term challenge is internationalization, both in opportunities that we will have to find in markets outside of Europe, and in SENER’s people. We have to train teams that integrate Spanish professionals, who see our international projection as a source of personal and professional development, and professionals from the other countries where we will be active, who will help us consolidate our position in these new markets.Q.: Finally, do you think that Society understands the investment in the Aerospace sector in the context of the current crisis?

R.Q.: I think so. Even in these difficult times, Society sees that the path to getting out of the crisis is technological development and technological skill. And for this we have to boost the development of a specialized industry like Aerospace. Space is a magnificent example of how companies, by using financing from public administrations for technological development and their own R&D investments, have achieved an industrial skill level that then flowed over to other sectors. SENER is a good example of this: almost all of our current activity in the Aerospace market comes from developments in the Space and Defense sectors which we have later applied to other everyday fields. Products for the solar market or biomedical technology and devices benefit from the knowledge developed in projects for the Space and Defense sectors as dual technology.

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JUAN TOMÁS HERNANI, GENERAL SECRETARY OF INNOVATION

The second stage in the national strategy for

innovation e2iI have often quoted a phrase from Jorge Sendagorta that has helped me push for Innovation from my position of responsibility: “Innovation has always been a good business, if you devote yourself to good businesses.”

t’s the best way to express the idea that innovation means turning knowledge into money, just like research means turning money into knowledge.

How’s business going with this cycle in Spain? Is it closed or open?

In its Europe 2020 strategy, the European Commission has dared to formulate its own specific goal to have a sound, knowledge-based society. It reiterates, eleven years on from when the Lisbon Agenda was set out, that this magic number is an investment of 3% of GDP on research and development, with 2% of that being private and the other 1% public.

This scenario involves recognizing that private and public investment must coexist and give one another feedback. The fact is that the first category must be TWICE AS MUCH as the second if we want it to lead us almost unerringly to economic value. And that second source of investment is necessary as a source of knowledge, operating within its own areas, but it must drive the first one.

There are not yet many critics of this strategy, although there are those who criticize public investment, and those who criticize private investment.

Spain, however, is looking at a figure of 1.38% of GDP being invested in R&D, with the average for all of Europe being 1.9%. It is therefore wise to ask ourselves what

we should do, and when it is that we’ll reach the level of investment at which most of Europe already is TODAY, before moving on to the second part of the journey - reaching 3%. A balanced investment of 1.9%, with a balanced virtuous circle between investment and economic impact.

To achieve this, in 2009 the Office of the General Secretary of Innovation first formulated a nationwide strategy for innovation (e2i). This strategy contains several key factors that operate in the market, breaking the linear mold of research-technology transfer and supplementing it with a ‘five-walled garden’ that has a larger economic component. As shown in last year’s COTEC report, “the e2i represents a remarkable milestone in the history of science and innovation in Spain; it formulates a long-term strategy, with indicators for private investment, jobs, and numbers of companies, and sets its goal as the doubling of Spain’s innovation economy by 2015.”

The e2i puts together three high-impact objectives: doubling research investment (€6 billion in additional investment each year), doubling the number of companies involved in innovation (40,000 additional companies), and increasing the number of medium and high-tech jobs by 500,000, including services. These goals are targeted for 2015, allowing time for the legislature, the media, and other economic rhythms to take up the challenge.

The e2i develops five mainstays: capital and financing for R&D, public procurement and innovation based on demand, globalization through technology, regional cooperation in Spain and, finally, people and innovative jobs.

The e2i therefore rejects uninspired, backward conflict between science and business. Instead, it proposes a scheme focused on a knowledge-based market, through these five mainstays of the five-sided garden of innovation, which serve as the foundation for constructing the Ministry’s policy within stable, medium-term framework.

2011 is the time for the business world to better understand the assertion made by the President of SENER: that innovation is business, that it creates opportunities and jobs, and that in this positive international casuistry, all players can have an active mission in the generation of value-added jobs.

When this Office of the Secretary finds itself in the last legislative session, it is concerned about compromising the issues that have been pending and planned from the outset in the e2i: capital, innovative public procurement and jobs, while at the same time providing society with a system that triples mobilized economic activity, that focuses on credit and large-scale projects, that strengthens activity under the new Science, Technology, and Innovation Act, and that puts businesses at the center of this activity.

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Aeronautics and Vehicles SINTONIA PROJECT

ELGA PROJECT

Defense and Security AGREEMENT WITH EUROTORP

UAS CAMCOPTER S-100

New Markets BIOCHIP PROCESSING STATION

ACTUATION MECHANISMS

Civil PANAMA METRO

PYRENEES INTERCONNECTING ELECTRIC LINE

SAFETY L9 PROJECT

SECTION 2 OF THE RAILWAY LINE IN GRAN CANARIA

THE PAJARES RAILWAY LINK

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Power and Process CSP PROJECTS IN SPAIN

HELSOLAR PROJECT

AMPLIFICATION OF THE BBG REGASIFICATION TERMINAL

COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANT IN CERRO DRAGÓN

CARACOL QUINTERO PLANT IN CHILE

TC GRAN PROJECT

Marine FORAN V70: FVIEWER

TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTRE IN CHINA

FORAN IN NAVANTIA

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On-line Chemical Water Quality Analysis Equipment

LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS

Along with oxygen, water is an indispensable element for a spaceship crew’s survival, and from the point of view of transportation and mass, it doubtlessly proves to be the most critical.

Due to this fact, the implementation of efficient water recovery and recycling systems, as part of the overall Life Support functions in long-term manned planetary or lunar exploration missions, is an unavoidable objective as water re-supplying becomes actually unfeasible.

Strict quality control will be absolutely necessary for water produced through recycling processes, which is why the European Space Agency (ESA) has included carrying out an equipment definition study for real-time chemical analysis of water quality within the activities in their TRP (Technology Research Programme). Its purpose is to select and perform feasibility tests for the most suitable analysis technique in space in order to monitor chemical water quality online, and especially specific contaminants, such as certain heavy metals and other ions.

The company NTE-SENER was the bidder awarded this project, the estimated duration of which is 18 months. NTE-SENER will be the main contractor with direct responsibility for managing the project, conceptual design, all aspects related with the space environment and the proposal for future implementation of the equipment.

Collaborating with the company NTE-SENER is the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the National Centre for Microelectronics as experts in analysis techniques and biosensors, as well as the CETaqua Water Technology Centre as a specialist in water quality control.

THE MAIN RESULTS.The visible camera scanner development model has demonstrated:

FINAL RESULTS

MTG scanner mechanism development model

SENER has carried out a development model for the visible camera scanner for the Third Generation Meteosat (MTG) satellite. The design is a model representing the most critical and novel technologies for the scanner mechanism, including finer resolution aspects and dynamic system stability. It should also be noted that there is another consortium working on the same scanner in a parallel project development.

One of the priorities of this development, which has now ended, was the use of previous European technologies and experiences; for example, capacities at critical aspects, such as flexural pivots, developed by SENER (High Accuracy Flexural Hinge Assembly, HAFHA), and the LAT toroidal or encoder high resolution and precision motor.The Third Generation Meteosat project,

SENER has been awarded the design of the Spanish load on board the World Space Observatory - Ultraviolet (WSO-UV). That load will be named ISSIS (Imaging and Slitless Spectroscopy Instrument for Surveys), and will be responsible for providing images and spectography in a spectral range including ultra-violet and optic (1150 Å – 8000 Å). SENER’s work includes the preliminary ISSIS design up

to manufacture of its structural and thermal model.

ISSIS will contain two channels: the first one, the HSC (High Sensitivity Channel), will work between 1150 Å and 2000 Å and will be focused on observing very weak sources; the second is the CFS (Channel for Surveys), which will work between 1150 Å and 8000 Å.

This work represents the greatest collaborative project in space research and technology between Spain and Russia. World Space Observatory - Ultraviolet is the responsibility of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos. The observatory will have a 24-hour circular orbit, with a 35,800 km altitude and a 51.41o inclination. In addition to ISSIS, it will have other spectrographs as cargo.

The WSO-UV will be launched when Hubble’s useful life ends, which means that ISSIS will be the instrument used by all UV scientists to carry out their work, which gives an idea as to how important this project is within the international context.

In the image: artistic image of the WSO-UV, courtesy of the Complutense University of Madrid.

awarded to the TAS / OHB consortium, had its kick-off meeting this last November of 2010. The tenders for the flight model will be received in the following months.

SENER has carried out this project along with ASTRIUM.

In the image: vibration test in a mechanism’s component at CTA facilities.


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Since 2007, SENER has been carrying out several studies for the Eurocopter group, the EADS division for helicopter production, which today is the worldwide industry leader. Aligned with the current trend toward a ‘more electric aircraft’, SENER’s studies have always been focused on introducing electromechanical actuators in these helicopters, substituting the hydraulic ones.

Concepts have been developed for diverse applications (trimming, control, tail plane, landing gear) for different models, including NH90, EC135 or EC175. Concretely, for the most recent landing gear application, SENER managed to reach the supplier short list, and their technical capacity was recognized in the final solution. As a consequence of this design, SENER has carried out internal development, funded by the Basque Government through the INTEK program, which has included the manufacture, assembly and testing of prototypes for the most critical requirements. This is the ELGA project.

In addition to this development, the company maintains relations with Eurocopter, even though the group has cut investment in R+D, and there are even other initiatives in action, such as the European Actuation 2015 project, which may give way, mid-term, to serial industrial production.

In the image: temperature and load test cycling for the ELGA project.

ELGA PROJECT

Electromechanical actuator for Landing Gear actuation in helicoptersSINTONIA PROJECT

Unmanned systems designed for zero environmental impactSENER participates in the SINTONIA project in the actuation and control surfaces area. The engineering company is carrying out two parallel projects: one dedicated to electromechanical actuators (EMA), and the other regarding control surfaces (winglets), adaptive and with the capacity to modify their shape or morphing capacity.

For electromechanical actuators, SENER is studying two smart actuator types for typical kinematics in unmanned systems, where available space and weight are very critical requirements. The systems to be developed are linear and rotary actuators for rudder or winglet-type surfaces. EMA actuators will have monitoring systems integrated for predictive maintenance. The intent is to finally compare the two actuation system types and their services to develop the optimum unmanned system. The design will be as modular as possible in order to reach different operational ranges for different types of unmanned systems.

In addition, SENER is participating in the study of alternative aerodynamic configurations. Within this field, development is focused on the design of winglets based on biomimetic concepts. As such, both the geometry and the capacity to modify the shape observed in nature during bird flight will prove useful for designing the winglets, which will copy the morphing capacity by using materials such as piezos or Shape Memory Alloys (SMA). The Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics at the School of Higher Education of Aeronautic Engineers of Madrid collaborates with SENER on this project by validating the adaptive winglets in tunnel, as does the research centre INASMET-Tecnalia, which will take charge of manufacturing representative models and performing tests.

In the image: SENER MICROEMA prototype.

TEST IN ELGA. In ELGA, the landing system is composed of a nose landing gear system, two main gears and the control and system monitoring. One of these actuators has been tested for temperature and load cycles and for buckling, a critical condition produced during an unexpected landing on one of the gears.The ELGA electromechanical actuator has been subjected to 24-hour cyclic tests (strokes of 0 to 400 mm) in a temperature-controlled chamber (from -40ºC to +70ºC, with peak load at 3,500 N), in the Aeronautical Technologies Centre (CTA, in its Spanish acronym) of Álava, and the

system has shown proper behavior.A buckling test has also been performed with a compression load (86,000 N), wherein the actuator showed proper behavior up to 70,000 N, although buckling appeared on the output rod. After a visual inspection, excepting this element, the rest of the elements (motor, brake, screw/nut) were operative. As such, with some minimum design optimization, it may be considered that the actuator has been satisfactorily designed and verified.In light of these excellent results, SENER hopes to be able to present this actuator at the Paris Air Show 2011, to be held in June.


Up-to-date: Defense and Security

Eurotorp, the French-Italian consortium, world leader in the field of light weight torpedo, and SENER have signed an Industrial Cooperation Agreement for the promotion and production of the advanced lightweight torpedo MU90, with the aim of addressing a potential future acquisition by the Spanish Navy.

The Parties have agreed to cooperate together to pursue the objective of exploiting the SENER technological and industrial capability, including the installation of an assembly line in Spain, for the manufacturing of some parts of MU90 for the Spanish Navy and Eurotorp export market. MU90 lightweight torpedo is in service within the French, Italian, German, Polish and Danish Navies, and has been accepted by the Commonwealth of Australia.

The French-Italian consortium Eurotorp is the world leader in the field of Lightweight Torpedoes (LWT) and associated systems. Eurotorp is fully responsible for commercial management, program management, technical coordination, industrial coordination and after sales. The consortium is certified ISO 9001 & AQAP 2110.

From left to right: SENER Aerospace Business Unit Assistant Manager, Santiago H. Ariño, and Eurotorp General Manager, Nunzio Saporoso, during the signature of the agreement.

AGREEMENT WITH EUROTORP

SENER will participate in the promotion and production of the MU90 torpedo in Spain

CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS

SENER supports Schiebel during a demonstration in SpainThe CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS) successfully demonstrated in a series of flights its capabilities to the Spanish Military and a number of Spanish Other Government Departments (OGDs) during November 2010.

Once again Schiebel’s unmanned helicopter CAMCOPTER® S-100 convinced representatives of the Spanish Military and a number of Spanish OGDs of its outstanding capabilities as a Vertical Take-Off and Landing VTOL UAS, after series of sorties were flown from Torregorda land testing site (in Cádiz, Andalusia).

In support, a number of presentations were given to the attending officers covering the unique capabilities of the CAMCOPTER® S-100 and its varied portfolio of available payloads.

Several mission profiles were flown, demonstrating the UAS’ manual and automatic modes whilst highlighting

its wider capabilities and flexibility. The scenarios were chosen by the Spanish Authorities and included littoral surveillance, stand-off surveillance and vehicular tracking sorties.

The demonstrations were carried out with the full support of Schiebel’s partners in Spain, SENER as technological partner and A. Paukner S.A. (APSA) as sales representative, who were instrumental in ensuring that all clearances, certification and logistics issues were fully addressed.

Feedback from the visiting officers was extremely positive and the partnership collectively conformed by Schiebel, SENER and APSA makes a formidable team of experts dedicated to customer satisfaction and meeting the Spanish UAS needs of the future.

In the image: CAMCOPTER S-100 during a demonstration flight.

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Up-to-date: New markets

marking genes for sickness prognostics and tumor classification stand out.

As of today, the analysis process for microarrays and biochips is still long and laborious. The specialist must handle the samples, the reactive agents and the microarrays with extreme caution to avoid possible contamination. Although there are currently devices that automate some of the steps in this process, there are none that automate the entire process. This is the main goal of the Biochip Processing Station, developed by SENER.

The EPB analyzes 24 microarrays at the same time, in a completely automatic fashion, without the need for specialist intervention; in this way, the risk of contamination and analysis time are reduced. The EPB is mainly formed by two modules: the handling and hybridization module, and the illumination and reading module.

SENER has carried out the complete design of the Biochip Processing Station and the production of a prototype as part of the internal technology developments for bio-medical applications. The company foresees its future commercialization in medical centers and laboratories.

In the image: Biochip Processing Station (EPB) prototype designed by SENER.

The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, through CIEMAT, has awarded SENER the supply contract for 150 two axes drives for high pointing accuracy solar tracking for the Almeria Solar Platform (PSA, in its Spanish acronym). Once again, the PSA, worldwide reference in concentrated solar power, places its trust in SENER’s technology for heliostat positioning.

Heliostats are formed by mirror facets and their mission is to concentrate solar radiation on one point, the receiver. To this end, mirrors must permanently be pointed with enormous precision, which is achieved with a high-performances two axes drive.

The CESA I installation, located at the PSA, is a worldwide pioneer in validation and test of central-tower receiver technology. This facility has more than 300 heliostats, all with high precision drives, designed and manufactured by SENER, which installed its first models in this plant, coinciding with its inauguration in 1983. SENER heliostats have been operative for more than 30 years, and the new generation of mechanisms delivered is taking over to continue fulfilling their function throughout the next 30 years.

In the image: SENER actuation mechanism installed both in the PSA and in Gemasolar.

SENER has made the last delivery of two axes drives for heliostats for the Gemasolar plant, the first commercial-scale plant in the world that applies central-tower receiver technology and thermal storage of molten salts. Gemasolar has a solar field made up of 2,650 heliostats, distributed in rings around the tower, the furthest one located at 1 km

Thanks to the knowledge acquired in the space engineering field, concretely in the development of instrumentation for the confirmation of the existence of life on Mars, SENER has designed and produced a Biochip Processing Station (EPB, in its Spanish acronym) for the biomedicine market.

In the last years, microarrays (multiplex laboratories in a chip) and biochips have become a fundamental tool in biomedicine and for the development of medicines.

Amongst the numerous applications of microarrays, the determination of gene expression profiles, the selection of biomarkers, pharmacogenomics, toxicogenomics, the identification of

BIOCHIP PROCESSING STATION

New development for the biomedicine industry

ALMERIA SOLAR PLATFORM

Contract for supplying 150 two axes drives for high pointing accuracy solar tracking

ACTUATION MECHANISMS

Supply for the 2,650 Gemasolar heliostats ends

from the tower. Each heliostat has a 120 m2 mirrored surface which is continuously oriented throughout the day. This solar concentration method requires a high level of pointing accuracy for its proper operation, which is achieved with the high performances two axes drive incorporated into each heliostat and that is a critical component for this plant type. The drives are not only characterized by their high precision, but also by their high load capacity, low maintenance, reliability, robustness and long life cycle.

SENER designs, manufactures and supplies a high performances two axes drive which is the most marketed drive in the world for central-tower receiver plants nowadays.

The complete supply for Gemasolar has been possible thanks to the new SENER Tests and Integration facilities, and the team of professionals that have dealed with production loads higher than 400 monthly units.


Up-to-date: Civil

SENER has been awarded by Consorcio Línea Uno, a joint venture between the companies Odebrecht (55%) and FCC (45%), the contract for the detailed design of the complete civil works of the Panama metro Line 1, located in Panama City. The works put out to contract comprise the Albrook – Transístmica underground stretch, of 7.1 km long in double track tunnel, as well as five metro stations,

PANAMA METRO

Detailed design of the Line 1

SPANISH-FRENCH CONTRACT

Tunnel for Pyrenees interconnecting electric line

including the associated ventilation and emergency rescue shafts.

Panama City is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. Being the political and administrative center of the country, and a hub for international banking and commerce, the city registers an intense traffic daily. A lot of inhabitants depend on public transport systems for their trips, while there are frequent traffic jams, due to the high levels of private transport ownership. Transport problems in Panama City are really affecting the population quality of life. To solve this problem, the city is looking for ways to improve the city transport systems to reinforce its public transportation that nowadays consists

Inelfe (Interconnexion électrique des Pyrénées Catalanes), a joint venture with Red Eléctrica de España S.A. (REE) and Réseau du Transport d’Électricité (RTE) has awarded SENER, in consortium with another four companies, the contract to construct the tunnel for the Pyrenees interconnecting electric line.

The agreement reached in 2008 by the French and Spanish governments includes the construction of a 60 km interconnection for power transportation between both countries, between the towns of Baixas (Eastern Pyrenees), in France, and Santa Llogaia d’Àlguema (Gerona), in Spain. This line, the first electric interconnection network between different countries in the European Union, is projected as underground and

with direct current (DC). The nominal voltage for power connection is + 320 kV for a maximum power load of 2,000 MW, with bi-directional power flow, in such a fashion that the interconnection is capable of operating in the same way in both directions.

The Albères mountain range junction requires the excavation of an 8.5 km tunnel between Montesquieu-des-Albères and La Jonquera, work which has been awarded to the Spanish-French consortium containing SENER. To carry it out, two tunnel excavators will be put to work on each end. It should be reminded that said tunnel runs alongside the Perthus tunnel for the Figueras – Perpignan high speed line, which SENER also participated on.

SENER is also in charge of engineering for the Portal Sur design (Spanish side), which includes a maintenance building and facilities and a false tunnel; it is also responsible for the structural calculation of the tunnel, which implies the determination of voussoirs and defining the tunnel boring machine, and the tunnel layout, whose interior diameter will be 3.5 m, with voussoir thickness of 0.25 m; in the same fashion, it will carry out the integration of facilities in the tunnel and at the South Mouth, which

implies expropriations, studies on affected services and organization site studies along with Dragados.

SENER, along with Dragados, is the Spanish representation in this Spanish-French contract. SENER acts as support engineering for Dragados, a constructor on the Spanish side. For the French, there is the constructor Eiffrage, ARCADIS as Eiffrage support engineering and Setec as responsible for calculating facilities.

This project, which began in the month of February, is expected to end in the year 2013.

In the image: artistic view of the Portal Sur design of the tunnel, for which SENER is in charge of the engineering.

of several bus lines. In this context, the Panama metro is conceived as a mass transport system with high capacity.

SENER carries out the design of the underground stretch for the first line of this metro, that will have conventional metro type trains with steel wheels, with five cars maximum and a total length of 91 m and 2.71 m waist wide, with a maximum capacity estimated for transporting 39,000 passengers per hour - way.

This new assignment confirms SENER’s growing presence in Latin America, with works coordinated from different offices in projects in Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, etc. In Panama, along with this new contract, it is worth mentioning that SENER led a European engineering group that prepared the technical bid for the extension of the Canal for Consorcio Canal (the Canal Consortium), which was a finalist in this important project, and which shows the extent of SENER’s civil engineering capacity in the continent. In that tender, the design elaborated under SENER’s management achieved the biggest score among all the presented proposals.

In the image: artistic view of the Panama metro line 1 designed by SENER.


Up-to-date: Civil

SENER continues to consolidate their role as tutor in RAMS activities in the railway sector in general, and on Barcelona’s metro line 9 particularly, where they carry out safety integration engineering on all line sub-systems.

Reliability engineering, more commonly known as RAMS, has traditionally been a discipline with limited application, restricted to specific production sectors: nuclear, aeronautic, railway and space.

SENER’s consolidated presence in projects considered ‘safety critical’, along with the progressive consolidation in the market of the culture of product reliability, has made safety and dependability a constant feature amongst requirements imposed by a wider and wider range of clients.

SENER has prepared a Global Risk Analysis for the entire L9 of Barcelona’s metro, in accordance with the CENELEC family of standards (EN 50126, EN 50128, EN 50129) and risk analysis

methodologies such as FTA, Cause and Effect Analysis, etc.

In the Global Risk Analysis, one of the most complete and extensive performed in the urban railway transportation sector, all dangerous situations associated with each one of the line’s sub-systems (ATC, energy, communications, rolling stock, vertical transportation, tunnel, ventilation and protection against fires, among others) were analyzed. At the same time, all the interfaces, between them were analyzed

in order to avoid an improper operation that could lead to a dangerous situation for people.

The SENER team has taken charge of defining, distributing and assigning safety requirements to each one of the different responsible sub-systems. The last objective has been to compile safety evidence for said sub-systems to demonstrate that all potential dangers that SENER has identified for each one of them have been covered. All this information has been compiled in the Safety Case of the whole line, which is the key safety document in obtaining the Safety Certificate from the General Management of Land Transportation (DGTT, in its Spanish acronym) from the Catalan regional government. The coordination and integration of such a high number of sub-systems was a great challenge for SENER, but it was also a great achievement, since the safety procedures and methodology developed specifically for this project have been successfully implemented.

In the images: artistic views of the Line 9: a hall, a platform and (below) the complete scheme of the botton station.

L9 SAFETY PROJECT

SENER’s work on RAMS: reliability engineering

MODEL EXAMPLE IN RAMS. With the L9 Safety project as the backbone of safety activities, SENER’s RAMS team has been establishing itself throughout the past year as a model example of Technical Safety Assistance in the Railway sector, both for public administrations such as GISA and for large industrial groups, such as Dragados, Acciona and ACSA, among others. SENER has managed to progressively offer an ever-expanding range of tutoring services in functional safety, accompanying clients in any phase

of the project’s lifecycle. However, the current need for responding to non-railway client requirements has seen the SENER team making great efforts in terms of harmonization and integration, which has shaped the development of new procedures, flexible enough to satisfy the requisites of such client diversity.Along the same lines, SENER’s RAMS team is currently involved in the FAS Meteor project, with the difficult challenge of achieving the FAS sub-system complex certification, which must have a safety integrity level of SIL4.


Up-to-date: Civil

SENER is leading the project for section 2 of the UIC gauge line defined in the ‘Special Territorial Plan for the Public Transportation Corridor with Own Infrastructure and Mode Guided between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Maspalomas (PTE21)’, directed by Ferrocarriles de Gran Canaria. The introduction of the train in Gran Canaria, a true historical milestone for the island, was also promoted by SENER, being the company

that authored the PTE-21. Within said plan, SENER justified the need for implementing a new method of guided transportation, once mobility problems on the island were diagnosed. The train improves access to areas less favoured by territory, as well as access in public transportation between socially and economically interdependent spaces.

The section awarded to SENER, 8.77 kilometres long, is by far the most complex,

The New Pajares Railway Link is the main section of the future high-speed line (HSL) Leon – Asturias, linking the Northern Spanish Plateau with the coastal Asturias region. The total length of the new Rail Link is 49,7 km, being the Base Tunnel of Pajares the one that stands out for its singularity: a 25 km twin-bored tunnel beneath the Cantabrian Cordillera that will be the second longest rail tunnel in Spain and one of the longest in the world. This link has been designed to support the rail traffic that currently has to cross the Pajares Mountain Pass, and for this reason it has been designed for mixed traffic, i.e., passengers and freight, even dangerous goods.

ADIF, Spanish Railway Infrastructure Administrator, awarded to SENER, in joint

venture with another Spanish engineering company, the contract for the Preliminary Engineering of the internal structures of the Pajares tunnels: lateral evacuation and maintenance paths, drainage systems and fire-breaks siphons, longitudinal and transversal power and communication cable conduits, tunnel waterproofing works, access galleries tunnels lining, as well as the construction and urbanization development works at the tunnel portals.

SENER is leading the joint venture for drafting the preliminary engineering and construction projects that will define the safety security facilities for the tunnels of the Pajares Bypass that are more than 1 km long. The projects will define the locations of the ventilation, lighting and emergency signage systems, the fire detection and fire-fighting system and the doors in the transversal galleries. They will also determine the installation of the public address and emergency radio communication systems, the access control and intruder detection systems, the location of the integration, equipment control and command management systems, and the power supply and distribution to all these systems.For the performance of these studies, SENER

developed an analysis of Spanish, European and International regulations in force, and a risk analysis of all the tunnels of the Pajares Link that would also enable the definition of all the safety and civil defense facilities. The relevance of this study stems in the exceptional length of the tunnel and in the fact that all the internal safety and civil defense facilities had to adapt to an already built tunnel, with the implied difficulties and determinants.

Such a singular large-scale project has been presented in several national and international congresses of civil engineering and railway safety.

In the image: works on the Pajares Railway Link, North Mouth.

as its entire route has a subterranean line and a cavern station. Another important aspect, not only due to its complexity, but also to how unusual the case is, is the possible need to reclaim land from the sea in the initial zone, where it is foreseeable that a section will have to be made above ground. Given that it runs under the Avenida de Canarias, the most important track on the island, whose Average Daily Intensity (IMD in its Spanish acronym) is greater than 100,000 vehicles/day, a provisional bypass must be enabled. This bypass can only be made at the detriment of the coastline.

Another important aspect is the tunnel design, not only due to geo-technical reasons and subsidence (a large part of the section runs under the city of Las Palmas), but also because the line passes very close to the Insular Hospital, which would imply studying track systems which allow reduction in noise and vibrations. Given the ever-growing concern for traveller safety in tunnels, the design will take not only Spanish, but also European standards in safety matters into account.

This project, which SENER is carrying out in joint venture with La Roche, began in January of 2011 and is expected to end in July of 2012.

In the image: current environment at the La Laja tunnel.

TRAIN IN GRAN CANARIA

Section 2 of the railway line between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Maspalomas

THE PAJARES RAILWAY LINK

Supplementary civil engineering work for the Pajares tunnels


Up-to-date: Architecture

As of this year, SENER Madrid offices located in the Technological Park of Madrid (PTM in its Spanish acronym), in the Tres Cantos town, will have two new buildings: an underground parking lot and a new office building.

Up until today, this complex has been an eight-building complex, with one main building, building 1, a six-building group (buildings 2 through 7), connecting one with the other, forming a U, and building 8 for the Integration and Test Division. Workers in these eight buildings have an above-ground parking lot with a little more than 400 parking spaces. The space the company has in La Encina building, just at the PTM exit, should be added to these offices, where SENER also has facilities on four floors.

The consequence of constant personnel growth in SENER’s offices in Madrid

throughout the last years is the need to increase parking space for company workers, which now add up to more than 800 persons, and also the need to construct a new building, number 9, mainly intended as an office space. Work, which began in the spring of 2010, will finish this summer.

The new parking lot is located next to building 8, in the rear part of the buildings 2 through 7 complex. It has almost 500 parking spaces distributed throughout four underground floors, each one of them decorated with the corporate colors and drawings for each one of the four business units: Marine, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Power and Process, and Aerospace. This underground parking lot has served to free up surface space, where a garden has been designed with pedestrian exits from the parking lot integrated therein,

which will have rest areas distributed throughout four differentiated areas for the enjoyment of SENER’s people.

Besides, the new office building has four floors and maintains the same design as previous buildings 1 to 8. It is located on the street Miguel Servet, after building 7. The basement will connect directly with the new parking lot and will additionally have facility spaces, a data processing center and a safety control center. On the ground floor, a direct connection with the rest of buildings will be localized through building 7, the closest one to the new structure.

Each one of building 9’s floors is developed around a central nucleus, wherein vertical communications, stairs and an elevator are located, as well as restrooms and floor storage rooms. The greater part of the space will be destined to office space, with an open office concept, wherein some offices and meeting rooms on each one of the floors

will also be equipped. On the ground floor, the building will have several meeting rooms, equipped with the latest technology, and, at least in one of them, with a video conference system.

From a facilities point-of-view, the new building will have the latest light adjustment and heating and cooling systems, in order to optimize power consumption. Cold and hot water for building heating and cooling, as well as for domestic hot water, will have a geothermic source. Additionally, rain water will be re-used to water the new gardens located over the parking lot. As such, it will be a sustainable building, in line with all the constructions carried out by SENER’s Architecture Department, responsible for its design.

In the images, above, on the left: the SENER Madrid complex in the PTM general view, where building 9 can already be seen. Above, on the right: an image of the works in the surface garden over the underground parking lot. Below: one of the underground floors of the parking, the one dedicated to the Civil and Architecture Business Unit.

ENLARGEMENT OF SENER MADRID

New underground parking lot and office building


Up-to-date: Power and Process

In the last six months, SENER has obtained several contracts for the design and supply of solar fields in Spain. These solar fields will use SENERtrough technology, patented by SENER, that is already being used with great success in several commercial plants in operation.

Following is a description of the new projects wherein SENER supplies the solar field in the ‘turn-key’ or EPC basis. Upon client request, SENER may supply only the collector’s metallic structure, which

is the base of solar field optic efficiency, or the whole scope, in other words, the metallic structure plus the mirrors, absorber tubes, swivel joints, interconnection tubes, instrumentation, local control boxes (LOC) and solar field control system (SCS).

ASTE 1A & ASTE 1BSENER is performing EPC or ‘turn key’ contract of the engineering and construction works on the solar field for the Aste 1A and Aste 1B plants, located in Ciudad Real,

property of Elecnor with the participation of AMB-Umbro and Aries. It is a complex with two thermo-electric solar installations, with parabolic trough collector technology and 50 MW power per plant, and a total mirror surface area of 784,800 m2.

SENER participates in the design, manufacture, supply and assembly of the 120 loops which will make up each of the Aste 1 plants. These 240 systems will use 11,520 SCEs (Solar Collector Elements), with an approximate length of 144 km of metallic structure. SENER’s scope in this project is focused on the metallic structure of the solar field’s collectors. Work includes assembling the mirrors, which are supplied by the client. The first SCE was delivered in February for the Aste 1 plants, the commercial operation of which is foreseen before the end of 2012.

PLANTS IN CORDOBA AND BADAJOZSENER also carries out EPC or ‘turn-key’ contract of the engineering and construction works on the solar field for the Termosolar Soluz Guzmán, Consol-Orellana and La Africana plants.

The Termosolar Soluz Guzmán plant is property of Guzmán Energía (Guzmán Energy). It is a 50 MW power installation, located in Palma del Río (Córdoba). SENER participates in the design, provisioning, inspection, logistics, supply,

CSP PROJECTS IN SPAIN

EPC solar field construction and engineering



installation, assembly, start-up and testing of 96 complete parabolic trough collector loops.

In turn, Consol-Orellana is a plant owned by Acciona Energía, with 50 MW power and parabolic trough collector technology, constructed in the Badajoz province, in the Orellana La Vieja municipal area. In this plant, SENER participates in the engineering, supply and assembly of metallic structures for parabolic trough collectors for 124 loops; in other words, the same scope as in the Aste 1 plants.

The recent contract to the engineering, supply and assembly for the solar field at the La Africana plant is also to be mentioned. This new installation, also located in Palma del Río, is owned by Magtel, TSK and Ortiz. With 50 MW power, its solar field is composed of 168 loops of parabolic trough collectors with a total of 672 SCAs. In this case, SENER supplies the complete loops, just as with Soluz Guzmán.

Termosolar Soluz Guzmán will begin operation in the middle of 2012, while Consol-Orellana will do so a few months afterward, before the end of 2012, the same as La Africana plant.

With these new projects, SENER now has 17 solar plants throughout national territory, as well as two other projects currently being constructed in the USA.

In the other page, above, and over this lines: SENERtrough system to be installed in the new plants. In the other page, below: assembly of the collectors in the ASTE 1A plant. In this page, on the right: assembly facility in ASTE 1.

HELSOLAR PROJECT

Graphite storage system for CSP plantsHELSOLAR project has the objective of developing and validating a solid resource (graphite) thermal storage system, suitable for average-high temperature (650oC), adequate for a high thermal difference (~400oC) and which offers both technical and economical advantages as opposed to current systems.

This is an I+D project led by SENER, in collaboration with the company GrafTech International Ltd., and the University of California in Berkeley, in addition to being supported by other key suppliers for the project.

It is structured in three phases, with a foreseen duration of approximately one

year for each one of them. These three phases are: basic design, detail design and demonstrator construction and testing. Currently, the HELSOLAR project team is working on the basic design for the storage system.

HELSOLAR is funded by the US government, through the Department of Energy (DOE/EERE under Award Number DE-EE0003592).

This project confirms SENER’s commitment to the development of more efficient thermosolar power solutions, which allow for reducing generation costs for this renewable energy.

SENERTROUGH TECHNOLOGY has two distinctive hallmarks: on one hand, the use of a torque tube which provides torsional rigidity three times greater than current space structure designs, and, on the other, manufacture by stamping the mirror cantilever arms, which achieves a high precision while reducing manufacture and assembly costs significantly.SENERtrough collector’s dimensions are the standard for Spanish plants: each system (600 m long) is formed by four collectors or SCAs (Solar Collector Assembly) with a 5.8 m aperture width and 150 m length, approximately. Each SCA is made up of 12 SCEs (Solar Collector Element),

with a 5.8 m aperture width and 12 m length. The SCEs are manufactured at plant’s assembly warehouse, which is used by Operation and Maintenance staff once field construction is finished. It should be noted that the experience acquired in constructing the SENERtrough collector in previous projects (Extresol 1, Extresol 2, Valle 1 and Valle 2) have allowed for improving final assembly to optimum levels of accuracy by applying advanced calibration methods for assembly equipment. Future plants will benefit from this experience, which will directly generate an increase in expected incomes from energy delivery.



SENER has been awarded, in consortium with other companies, the EPC contract to carry out the amplification of the regasification terminal that Bahía

BAHÍA BIZKAIA GAS

Amplification of the BBG regasification terminal in Zierbena

Bizkaia Gas (BBG) has in Zierbena (Biscay, Spain).

The current plant has two tanks with a nominal capacity of 150,000 m3. The extension project consists of installing a new tank with a nominal capacity of 150,000 m3, with its corresponding primary and secondary pumps, the Boil-Off Gas (BOG) compression system and the auxiliary facilities necessary for the correct one and safe operation of the plant.

The basic engineering of the extension has been developed in 2006 by SENER. In this new phase, SENER will carry out the engineering and the technology of the new tank, contributing the own design,

in agreement with the standards and European codes in force. It is necessary to emphasize, within the peculiarities of the project, that this third tank contemplated in the extension will be the first developed completely by a Spanish consortium, wherein all the technology is local.

The estimated duration for this project is 36 months from initial work, on May 2011.

The consortium is formed by SENER together with Cobra and Balzola companies. SENER holds the deputy leadership project, and is also the company responsible for the tank technology. In the image: aerial view of the BBG regasification terminal in Zierbena.

Pan American Energy LCC has awarded SENER, in consortium with another company, the conversion of its thermoelectric power station of the Cerro Dragón gas and oil field (in

CERRO DRAGÓN PROJECT

Combined cycle power plant in Argentina

Chubut, Argentina) to a combined cycle power plant. The contract, in the FEED (Front End Engineering Design) + Progressive Lump Sum Turn Key–EPCM (Engineering, Procurement, &

Construction Management) modality, includes the development of the basic engineering and the detail engineering, the purchase of the main equipment, the construction, assembly and testing for the conversion of two GE units to a high efficiency combined cycle, with the incorporation of a 80 MW gas turbine, boilers and other equipment.

SENER won this contract, among other renowned international groups, thanks to its capacity to optimize the preliminary project.



TC-GRAN PROJECT

High power central tower with molten salt receiver technology for thermosolar electrical generation

CARACOL QUINTERO PLANT IN CHILE

Conceptual engineering for a waste-oil conversion plant

The Chilean Petroleum Company, COPEC Inc., has contracted SENER’s services to design the project’s conceptual engineering and budget, in a lump sum, for a plant to convert waste oil into additive components for oil-type fuel in their Caracol plant in Quintero (Chile). The plant basically carries out a process of separating the water and sediments contained in waste oils by centrifuging.

The waste oils with which the plant is fed are made up of lubricating oils from motors and industrial machinery, as well as oil from hydraulic transmissions. The waste oil arrives in tank trucks and is stored in settling tanks, in which partial water and sediment settling takes place. To reach the quality required as a heavy fuel, the waste oil, after being heated with diathermic fluid, is centrifuged to separate the rest of water and sediments from the waste oil. The oil treated in this way is then apt for use as a fuel oil and is stored in product tanks.

The Caracol plant is integrated into an existing Mobil-COPEC complex for the preparation of virgin lubricating oils. In the near future, if market conditions for lubricating oil bases obtained from waste oils allows for such, COPEC intends to transform the plant into a facility for the regeneration of waste oils similar to Ecolube’s, a facility located in Fuenlabrada (Madrid) which was promoted, designed and constructed by SENER to treat used mineral oils and to obtain lubricating bases. SENER has foreseen the possibility for this transformation in their design.

Within the continuous research work intended to achieve cost reduction in thermosolar power generation, the engineering team in SENER’s Solar Area is carrying out the TC-GRAN project.

The objective is the development of technology for a high power central tower thermosolar plant with salt receiver, with which a significant reduction in the cost of current thermosolar power generation is expected to be achieved.

This project will be one more step toward favoring the growth of central tower with molten salt receiver technology, a technology which, according to numerous studies carried out in the renewable energy industry, will be more efficient than the parabolic trough technology, once it is sufficiently developed and implemented.Within the framework of this project, pioneer technologies will be developed to

support design, construction and operation for plants based on central tower with molten salt receiver technology.

These technological developments, although led by SENER, are being participated in by other companies specialized in different components, equipment or systems, such as BATZ, Cooperative Association, Herlogas, Aeronautic Piping Industry, Microelectronics MASER, MTS Valves and Technology, and also Torresol Energy.

TC-GRAN is framed within the Basque Government’s ETORGAI 2010 projects. SENER foresees project completion toward the end of 2012.

In the image: aerial view of Gemosolar, the first commercial plant with central tower with molten salt receiver technology, designed and built by SENER for Torresol Energy.

AN INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY. Achieving the TC-GRAN project’s technical objectives require deep research, study, design and development processes for new possibilities within each one of the areas forming the plant and its operation, on all levels and the ensemble in general:

than the current receiver.

the development of a new heliostat, and also for all associated aspects necessary for powering, communications and the control system.

include two basic parameters unlike the one currently in existence: greater volume flow and greater pressure.

maximize plant services, it is necessary to have an advanced simulation tool that allows for defining operational modes more adjusted to the limit of component services, and to foresee design needs for their implementation, as well as optimizing operational modes in order to take maximum advantage of the system.


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FVIEWER, the new approach to 3D virtual review

FORAN V70

FVIEWER is the new virtual reality module developed by SENER to replace the predecessor VISUAL 3D, with the aim of obtaining continuous improvements in design and manufacturing phases. FVIEWER is fully integrated in the FORAN environment, and is included in new version V70.

FVIEWER gives the user the possibility

to review the model, walk through it in real time, interrogate it about properties and attributes, detect collisions, make annotations and measure clearances and distances. Being developed in native 64 bits thus allowing the use of more than 4 GB RAM, and taking advantage of the latest graphic cards capabilities, FVIEWER can handle in an efficient way huge amount of data.

FVIEWER, with an intuitive and modern user interface, incorporates new scene navigations tools and other features to enhance the user navigation:

displayed in the main window for object selection and to see information about the model and annotations.

now available, such as the Frame System, and significant points (i.e. absolute and relative position of objects).

objects can be seen by selecting on them. It is possible to measure distances and angles in the scene and to include annotations

are different clipping planes available and advanced searching tools.

allowing to discover collisions between objects, being possible to highlight them by means of sounds and color changes, and also to store them for further navigations.

to assign paths to objects and operators, thus allowing to check removal routes, escape routes and design inconsistencies.

position of the camera allows the user to

know the relative position inside the model, and to easily and quickly change it by selecting a new position in the map.

FVIEWER incorporates a new file format, V3D, generated by merging information from P3D files, which makes easier to handle big scenes. With this, FVIEWER is not limited to the scene size. In addition, the module uses some techniques for improving the performance, such as that geometry hidden behind other geometry is not sent to the graphics pipeline,

and incorporates better visualization capabilities without performance penalty.

solution for the virtual 3D navigation and can be a very useful tool for all the agents involved in the ship and production processes. FVIEWER will incorporate soon advantages such as a 3D mouse, 3D displays and tactile screens.

Above: detail of a clipping plane in FVIEWER. In the image on the left: user interface of the new FVIEWER.

FORAN in Wuhan University of Technology in China

TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTRE

SENER has signed a co-operation agreement with Wuhan University of

provide FORAN licenses to the School as a partner of SENER for the distribution of

A complete FORAN package has

Electrical design, Build strategy, Virtual reality, Advanced design and drafting and Design change and access control. It is word to mention that the latest version of the

input and output.

training in FORAN to the personnel of

to their university and master degree

Shipbuilding Industry and will assist

and customization.

In the picture, from left to right: UFC’s Marine Department Director, Iven Zhang, the Dean Professor of the Wuhan’s School of Transportation, Wu Weiguo, and SENER’s Asia Pacific Regional Director, Alfonso Cebollero, during the ceremony of Agreement Signing.


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Navantia is an international reference in the design and construction of military vessels with high added-value, as well as in control and combat systems, repairs and conversions, diesel engines and naval and power generation equipment. In the Marine sector, Navantia has an experienced technical office and makes

aim of always offering the state-of-the-art products and services. In addition, they have established important strategic alliances with other shipyards with the aim of uniting their technological, economic and industrial efforts. All

FORAN IN NAVANTIA

the facilities of Navantia are equipped with FORAN, which is highly improved with developments and enhancements thanks to the close collaboration between Navantia and SENER.

Navantia has a very long tradition of three centuries, which started with the creation of historic military arsenals in

the building and repair of the Spanish navy ships. It is important to highlight that Navantia comes from Empresa Nacional Bazan, who was the first

the company has been using FORAN continuously and has been keeping a close collaboration with SENER.

Navantia’s production facilities are split into four geographical centres: Ferrol

in the naval shipbuilding and the supply of naval shipbuilding and high technology equipment. In the last years, this facility has design and built five frigates for the Spanish Navy, five frigates for the Norwegian

commissioned to the Spanish Navy last month, of which the basic design and the structure engineering has been developed in FORAN. Navantia is currently developing an Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) of a

Leader in military shipbuilding

for the Australian Navy.

sheltered area for building special vessels like

is currently developing a series of four S-80 class submarines for the Spanish Navy, being the general design, structure, outfitting and the electrical design developed in FORAN. Regarding new projects, they will develop a series of submarines for the Indian Navy.

Finally, the production facilities on the

area. In addition, Navantia’s docks in this area are among the biggest docks in the world, with capacity to build ships up to 500 m long, and the biggest gantry crane in Spain. Navantia’s centres in this area specialize in building patrol boats, large military vessels, fast patrol boats and special

of Logistic Ships for the Spanish Navy and

In Puerto Real shipyard, they have recently finished two roll-on roll-off ships for Acciona

series of Patrol Offshore Vessels (POV) for

basic design, hull structure, outfitting and the electrical design has been developed in FORAN in all ships.

Image: section of the S-80 class submarine in FORAN.

Optimization of initial design in ship construction

BESST PROJECT

Since September of 2009, SENER has

(Breakthrough in European Ship and

whose objective is to achieve improvements in competition, sustainability, respect for the environment and safety in ship construction.

members, including shipyards, equipment providers, classification societies, engineers, research centres and universities.

participates, in close collaboration with

development of Advanced Methods for Early Structural Assessment in the initial ship design phase by means of FEM models.

requirements and restrictions of FEA tools, implies a large amount of manual labor. Depending on the complexity of the model, this process can last months, leading in many cases to the decision of working with

SENER’s activity within the project is intended to improve this process, eliminating model duplicities while reducing manual labor

and spent time by allowing the use of FEA tools

being carried out: the definition of the process and model idealization standards, to allow a remarkable reduction the manual labor; and the creation of a prototype which, using the idealization standards, automates the geometric simplification process integrating the FORAN

results has received funding from the

Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement nº 233980.

Images: designs in FORAN for BESST project.


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Design of a bulk-carrier for Log-In

BRAZILIAN PROJEMAR

SENER takes part in the Ocean Lider project

R&D IN MARINE POWER

Navantia has recently delivered the

Navantia commissioned the LHD Juan Carlos I to the Spanish Navy

FORAN SHIP biggest ship ever built by Navantia as well as the biggest ship of the Spanish

2005 and it was launched on 10 March

engineering of the ship were developed with SENER’s FORAN System.

designed to carry out amphibious missions, force deployment, humanitarian assistance and can be used as an auxiliary

hospital capacity, which makes it ideal for deployment in disaster areas, in addition to her cargo capacity.

With an overall length of 230.82 m (flight deck 202.3 m), 32 m beam and full

load displacement of more than 27,500 t, this is the biggest ship ever made available to the Spanish Navy. It is also the first of its size with podded electrical propulsion.

just 247 members.Other important particulars are design

draught of 6.8 m, depth to fly deck of 27.5 m, full load dead weight of 6,500 t, maximum speed (full load) >20 kn, range at 15 knots of 9,000 miles and accommodation capacity of 1,443 people.

Many international navies have shown

Navantia is constructing two units for the Australian Navy, which contract was signed in 2007.

Ocean Lider is a project orientated to the investigation in new technologies and energy production systems from renewable ocean sources, such as wave energy, tidal energy, including hybrid systems that allow the simultaneous capture of wind and waves or tidal currents. It will be studied the possibility of integration of these renewable energy generation systems in other existing offshore structures and in ports.

others, the fundamental aspects of the systems design, from structural elements to conversion and anchorage systems and their connection to the base

cover also new systems and methodologies to allow doing marine works with

minimum costs and deadlines, and without risk to security, establishing the optimum marine works related to structures installation and handling operation during maintenance and dismantling stages.

SENER participates in this project leaded by Iberdrola, in all the phases in relation with the design and calculation by Finite Elements Methods of floating structures, checking the stability and longitudinal resistance of the infrastructure and doing the studies of the different types of ships used in the Offshore Industry in order to obtain a new ship that could be able to give service to the new defined installations.

In the image: artistic view of the Ocean Lider project.

Projemar, a leading marine engineering company in Brazil, has designed a ship for Log-In, the mineral logistic company of ‘Vale do Rio Doce’, for the transport of bauxite

be built in the shipyard Estaleiro Ilha, S.A

Projemar has signed recently a contract

FORAN for the design and production of ships and offshore floating platforms.

Images: details of the bulk-carrier in FORAN.


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New extension of the number of FORAN permanent licenses

SEVERNOYE DESIGN BUREAU

After more than 13 years of successful and intensive use of FORAN, Severnoye Design Bureau has reached an agreement with SENER for the extension and reconfiguration of the number of permanent licenses in order to fit their new project demands.

naval and commercial ships in Russia, was

the Bureau’s life of more than 55-year, a group of highly qualified naval architects have been capable to solve the most complicated tasks in the area of designing ships and vessels.

hundred designs of different purpose, ranging from 500 t patrol boat to 26,000 t heavy nuclear-powered cruiser, and from bulker to whaling boat. In general, more than 550 ships and vessels with the total displacement of about 1.5 million tons have been built under the Bureau’s designs. All of them are notable for their seaworthiness, reliability and

operation economy. Some of the vessels were for the international market.

Within the last years, the company has developed designs of LNG ships, freezer vessels, trawlers, passenger vessels

vessels with systems of water and atmosphere ecological monitoring, vessels for collection and integrated processing of waste oily water and solid wastes and

Bureau takes part in the Russian Navy Revival programme. More than 20 pilot projects have been worked out.

Besides, the Bureau’s specialists are participating in the technical assistance for the construction of Project 17 lead ship of frigate

are being constructed in Mumbai (India) at the Mazagon Dock Limited Shipyard.

Image above, on the left: border guard ship. On the rigth: supply vessel. Image below, on the left: design of a LNG carrier for Russia.

THE SHIPS AND VESSELS DESIGNING PROCESS in the Bureau are most up-to-date and distinguished by using FORAN System. Some examples are: a multipurpose frigate of Project 22350 for the Russian Navy, carried out at the Severnaya Verf

shipyard based in Saint Petersburg; three frigates of Project 11356 built to the Bureau’s design that were delivered in 2003 to India. These ships were equipped with advanced weapon systems; the development of the detailed design documentation carried out for the modernized Project 11356 follow-on frigates for the Indian Navy, that are under construction at the Yantar shipyard based at Kaliningrad; a supply vessel Project 22180 that was launched in 2006 at Zenit Shipyard, Uralsk city (Kazakhstan); and a border guard ship of Project 22460 designed in the Bureau that is under construction at Almaz shipyard (San Petersburg). The ship is designed for the defense of state border, natural resources of internal waters, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, as well as for fighting terrorist groups, smuggling and piracy, for rescue operations, for environmental monitoring and cure of natural disaster effects.


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Torresol Energy, a developer and operator of concentrated solar power plants, is coordinating the completion of commissioning of the Gemasolar plant in Fuentes de Andalucía, a municipality of Seville (Spain), together with SENER. This is the world’s first commercial plant to use central tower receiver technology and a molten salt storage system. These technological innovations have been developed by SENER, which is also heading up the construction of this cutting-edge solar thermal power plant. Once it begins operations, Gemasolar will be able to supply

clean and safe energy to 25,000 households, eliminating more than 30,000 tons of CO

2 emissions each year. This innovative

technology significantly increases the plant’s efficiency and constitutes a starting point for cost-reduction strategies in the solar thermal power sector. This is a key objective of both Torresol Energy and SENER, as they seek to make this clean energy source a viable alternative to fossil fuels.

Gemasolar’s innovative technology has attracted considerable interest from government officials in Spain and abroad: representatives of the governments of

Gemasolar is getting close to commercial operation

SOLAR INDUSTRY MILESTONE

the European Union, the United States, Australia and the Arab League have requested to visit its facilities during the construction phases, as well as information on its progress. This project is also being closely followed by all players in the field of solar thermal energy, from its early stages until its fast-approaching inauguration, which will constitute a global milestone. After all, this plant is a technological revolution, acknowledged as such with several national and international awards, from the CSP Today award in the category of Thermosolar Innovation, to the 2011 European Sustainable Energy Awards, where Gemasolar was a finalist in the category of Production. This category recognizes projects that involve the generation of renewable energy or efficient energy production. In addition, its activity in the municipality of Fuentes de Andalucía has led to its City Hall receiving the Clean Technologies Recognition at the XVII Ones Mediterrània awards, presented each year by the Mediterrània-CIE Foundation.

This renewable energy project has instantly created more than 1,000 jobs during construction and will generate 50 skilled jobs in operations and maintenance once it is complete. Many of those jobs have been filled by residents from the municipality of Seville, who have been closely involved in the Gemasolar construction process and who eagerly await its forthcoming opening.

Above: aerial view of the Gemasolar plant. Below, on the left: Fuentes de Andalucía inhabitants dressed as Gemasolar during the carnival holidays of 2010. On the right: one of the pictures from the scholar competition of Gemasolar paintings, organized among the local schools.

COMMUNITY RELATIONS. Since the beginning of this project, Torresol Energy has cooperated closely with the City Hall of Fuentes de Andalucía, as well as with social actors in the local community. This has led to initiatives that promote a culture of renewable energy in the municipality, through events, lectures, school competitions, and guided tours of the plant. True to its founding commitment to protect the environment for future generations, Torresol

Energy has sought to be, through Gemasolar, an active player in sustainable development for Fuentes de Andalucía. This same philosophy can be applied in all its projects, both in the Valle 1 and Valle 2 plants,

whose construction is progressing in San José del Valle, Cádiz, and in

future projects the company is currently preparing to launch.


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BIOMEDICINE

Collaboration agreement between SENER and Fundació Althaia

NTE-SENER and the Althaia Foundation (Fundació Althaia) signed on March 23rd a collaboration agreement for the development of innovative projects in Biomedical Devices and Technology. The signature took place at the Althaia Foundation’s Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, in Manresa (Barcelona), between the Director of SENER in Catalonia, Gabriel Alarcón, and the Managing Director of Fundació Althaia, Manel Jovells.

By this agreement, Fundació Althaia and NTE-SENER start a fluent collaboration in the biomedicine field. More precisely, Fundació Althaia, as an institution in the sanitary field, will give advice, test prototypes and include improvements in the design and functioning of NTE-SENER

RE-REFINING OF USED OIL

Promotion of SENER’s Technology in Brazil

SENER has signed an agreement for an 80% share in the Brazilian company RRF Participaçoes e Administraçao de Empresas Lta, whose sole objective is the promotion of re-refining projects in Brazil with SENER technology.

The consumption of lubricants in Brazil has a growth parallel to the country’s current economic development, and its environmental legislation favors re-refining as the way to manage used oils.

The rise in the price of crude oil and greater environmental demands are highlighting the benefit of recycling lube oils, as opposed to their utilization as fuel. In this context, SENER is internationally promoting its oil re-refining technology, which is backed by long experience and is patented in more than 20 countries.

In Spain, SENER technology has fully satisfied expectations for the past 10 years in the Ecolube plant in Madrid: a 30,000 t/yr installation and an international icon for the recycling of lubricating oils. During these years SENER has maintained an advisory and technical assistance program in this installation, which has allowed for the introduction and implementation of innovative technology.

biomedical products. Professionals of both companies are working jointly in the development of two innovative products, in the fields of surgery robotic and diagnosis systems, that NTE-SENER will launch to the market in the next months.

With the aim of being sensitive to the sector needs and flexible to give answers to them, NTE-SENER is developing a growing network of alliances and relationships with hospitals, universities and technology and research institutions. Among them, the signature of this agreement with Althaia stands out.

From left to right: the Managing Director of Fundació Althaia, Manel Jovells i Cases, and the Director of SENER in Catalonia, Gabriel Alarcón, during the signature of the agreement.

PROBA-3

Contract signature as prime contractor for this mission

SENER has been assigned with the contract for Phase B of the Proba-3 formation flying mission from the European Space Agency (ESA). By virtue of this agreement, the engineering firm has become the prime contractor for this mission, with primary responsibility for its development, which will conclude with verification of the system in orbit. This marks the first time a Spanish company will lead a complete ESA mission.

The contract signature took place last March 29th at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) between Diego Rodríguez, Director of SENER’s Space Department, and Philippe Perol, acting ESA Director of Technology and Quality Management. Franco Ongaro, the recently appointed Director, was also present for the signature.

Proba-3 is the third mission in the ESA Proba series of small-satellites for validating developments in space systems. The Proba series is part of ESA’s In-Orbit Technology Demonstration Program, which is supported by the General Support Technology Program (GSTP).

Proba-3 is a complex mission that requires coordination among many companies. Spain’s participation in the mission stands out, with SENER as the prime contractor, GMV responsible for the formation flying subsystem, and EADS CASA Espacio developing one of the two mini-satellites. SENER has been awarded with this contract thanks to the specialization in the development of critical systems for satellites. SENER’s activity is endorsed by the technological solvency proven successfully by 165 units installed on board approximately 50 satellites and space vehicles with zero faults.

from left to right: the Director of SENER’s Space Department, Diego Rodríguez, and the acting ESA Director of Technology and Quality Management, Philippe Perol, during the signature of the contract.


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PIONEER IN THE AEROSPACE SECTOR

Tribute to Carlos Sánchez Tarifa

Last March 11th, Professor Carlos Sánchez Tarifa was honored on his 90th birthday, organized by the Technical Aeronautic Engineering School of Higher Education (ETSIA, in its Spanish acronym) of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), the National Institute of Aerospace Technique (INTA) and SENER.

The event, in recognition of his entire professional career and his contributions to aerospace investigation, concretely in the field of propulsion combustion, was presided over by the Head Chancellor of the UPM, Javier Uceda, accompanied by the director of ETSIA, Miguel Ángel Gómez Tierno. Also participating were Manuel Mulero, Director of the INTA Radio Frequency and Electronic Technologies Department, Jorge Sendagorta, President of SENER, and Amable Liñán, Professor Emeritus of ETSIA, who had the pleasant task of giving academic praise to the guest of honor.

Jorge Sendagorta emphasized the career of Carlos Sanchez Tarifa at SENER, where he carried out duties since 1985 as Chief Engineer in the development of the motor for the European Fighter Aircraft EF 2000. In his speech, Sendagorta defined him as “an innovative and universal engineer due to his joy in research” in a speech evoking many personal experiences paying testimony to “his open spirit: always collaborative and with a sense of humor.”

Carlos Sánchez Tarifa walked up to the stage where Jorge Sendagorta gave him a memento of the tribute: a model of the INI-11, the first aircraft motor project constructed in Spain, and for which this engineer had the task of aerodynamic design.

In SENER, Carlos Sánchez Tarifa was Chief Engineer in the development of the motor for the European Fighter Aircraft EF 2000 from 1985 until 1994. He also collaborated in the project of the launch tower of rockets at Kiruna (Sweden).

In the image: the President of SENER, Jorge Sendagorta, gives a model of the INI-11 to Carlos Sánchez Tarifa.

R&D&I CERTIFICATE

SENER obtains AENOR certificate in R&D&I

SENER has obtained AENOR certification in R&D&I under Spanish standard UNE 166002:2006.

During the months of October and November, AENOR conducted certification audits in SENER’s offices in Bilbao, Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, and their case was approved on December 31st, 2010. Earning this R&D&I certification reinforces SENER’s commitment to research and innovation.

ABU DHABI LIGHT RAIL TRAIN

Agreement with Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat Valenciana

On February 24th, the Counselor of Infrastructures and Transport of the autonomic government of Valencia (Generalitat Valenciana), Mario Flores, visited SENER and TYPSA offices in Abu Dhabi in order to sign the subcontract between the Valencia railway company Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) and the SENER-TYPSA consortium. By this agreement, FGV will collaborate in the development of the Abu Dhabi light rail transit study, advising in the operation and maintenance of the system tasks. They were

present for the signature with Mr. Flores: from SENER, the Abu Dhabi Light Rail Train Project Director, Joaquín Botella; from TYPSA, the Transport Planning Director, José Laffond, and the Director of TYPSA Valencia, Javier Machí.

The study of the Abu Dhabi Light Rail System Project was awarded to the joint venture SENER-TYPSA by the Abu Dhabi Emirate Department of Transport (DoT). It includes the design and development of a sustainable quality transport system that can manage the growing mobility demands of the Abu Dhabi inhabitants from all the metropolitan areas. The design will include the latest generation technologies and will be adapted to the specific characteristics of the region.

In the image: the Abu Dhabi Light Rail Train Project Director, Joaquín Botella, and the Counselor of Infrastructures and Transport of the Generalitat Valenciana, Mario Flores.


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CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

Projects with the Red Cross, Food Bank and educational programs with ESA and NASA

In recent months, SENER has launched several joint initiatives as part of its activities in the area of corporate responsibility. In the spirit of the holiday season, from December 14th to 22sd SENER once again conducted its annual toy collection drive in partnership with the Red Cross. This gave SENER persons the opportunity to drop off toys in designated areas in SENER’s offices in Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Seville and Valencia. Afterwards, the Red Cross coordinated distribution of the toys to underprivileged children in each of these cities.

And from February 21st through 25th, SENER worked with organizations from the Food Bank to kick off a food collection drive. This campaign, known as ‘Operation Kilo,’ asked those who wished to participate to bring in a kilogram of food (non-perishables such as beans, pasta, rice, and canned goods) for delivery to local Food Bank organizations, which take care of distributing them to charitable institutions. For the first time, SENER’s international offices in Argentina, Mexico, Poland, and Portugal took part in this initiative alongside its offices in Spain. All together, some 500 kg of food was collected.

Finally, SENER has supported the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) in developing an educational project in Spain, together with the ESA and NASA space agencies. This project, called ‘Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut,’ is an initiative directed at children between the ages of 10 and 12. Seven European countries —Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Spain— are taking part. The goal of Mission X is to expose students to the education and training that astronauts undergo, as a model for healthy lifestyles.

In Spain, the UPM has been in charge of putting this initiative into practice —specifically, Dr. Marcela González-Gross’s workgroup in the Department of Physical Activity and Sports (part of the National Institute for Physical Education, INEF). For now, activities are being conducted in schools in the autonomous communities of Cantabria, Castile and Leon, Castile-La Mancha, Extremadura and Madrid, although next year there are plans to expand the program to the rest of Spain.

In the photo: a group of schoolchildren from Madrid in the ESAC Centre of the European Space Agency, part of the activities for the Mission X project.

BEST PUBLIC WORK PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Honorable mention in the Agustín de Betancourt Prize

SENER has been awarded an honorable mention in the Agustín de Betancourt Prize for the ‘Best Public Work Project of the Year’, an annual award being given for the seventh time by the Spanish College of Civil Engineers.

This honorable mention seeks to recognize the work performed by SENER on the Tenerife tramline project, that covers 10 years, since its planification. SENER’s Head of the Civil Engineering Division in Madrid, Álvaro Relaño, was chosen to represent the company at this event.

Last year, the Madrid Branch of the College of Road, Canal and Port Engineers also decided to honor SENER, this time with the ‘Best Public Work’ award for the Sol suburbal rail station project.

GSS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Álvaro Azcárraga is new President

This past April 7, SENER Consultant Álvaro Azcárraga was named President of the GSS (Galileo Sistemas y Servicios) Board of Directors. This Spanish industry consortium represents Spanish satellite navigation companies and includes AENA, Alcatel Espacio, EADS CASA, GMV, Hispasat, Indra and SENER. Azcárraga, appointed as SENER’s representative to the board, will perform presidential duties for the Board for one year, replacing José María Martí Fluxá, CEO of Indra Espacio, in that position.

Álvaro Azcárraga is a member of the Board of Directors of Eurospace, the association of the European Space Industry, and a member of the Advisory Board of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), as well as a member of the International Academy

of Astronautics. Throughout his professional career, he has been President of the International Astronautical Federation, Spain’s Delegate to ESA’s Long-Term Space Policy Committee, and Board Member of Arianespace. He has been honored with the Cross of Aeronautical Merit and the CEAS (European Confederation of Aerospace Societies) medal for excellence in engineering, and has also received the Allan D. Emil Memorial Award in Astronautics for International Cooperation in Space.


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APPOINTMENTS

RICARDO MARTÍN, who until now has acted as General Manager of Aerospace and Systems Engineering, as well as Director of the Aerospace and Integration and Test Divisions, will now

be dedicated to the Directorate General of Aerospace and Systems Engineering (DGITD), which includes both the Aerospace and

the Integration and Test Divisions, part of the Bilbao and Barcelona Divisions, as well as NTE-SENER, a company within the SENER Group. From this point forward, Ricardo Martín will be responsible for strengthening strategic activities in the area of internationalization and will focus all his efforts on this Directorate General, given the enormous growth that it has experienced in the last three years.

He will be substituted in his role as Director of the Aerospace and Integration and Test Divisions by JOSÉ RODRIGUEZ,

who until now has served as Director of the Aeronautics and Vehicles

Department. José Rodríguez leaves this Department having achieved remarkable results for the area and having marked out the trajectory for the projects included in the 2011-2013 Strategic Plan. Replacing José Rodríguez in his former position will be ÍÑIGO GURREA, who up until now

has been Head of the Mechanical Section of SENER Barcelona; as of now, Gurrea will assume the duties of managing the Aeronautics and Vehicles Department, which forms part of the Aerospace

Business Unit. In turn, this position will be taken on by FRANCESC MASSABÉ, who also worked in the Mechanical Section of SENER Barcelona.

JOSÉ OLASO is the new General Director of Procurement and Construction, following the recent retirement of EDUARDO SERRANO, who had held the position of General Director

until now. After 43 years of service at SENER, Eduardo Serrano will act as a Consultant from this point forward. In turn, José Olaso, who until now has been the Project Director for the Power and Process Strategic Business Unit, including the Gemasolar project, will take on this new position in addition to his current responsibilities as Director of the Gemasolar project, until that

FORAN AWARDED

The ‘Makila of Honor 2010’ award from the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Navigation of Bilbao

The Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Navigation of Bilbao, at the Corporation’s plenary session, has decided to grant SENER the ‘Makila of Honor – Ohorezko Makila 2010’ award for its contributions to the missions pursued by the Chamber.

More specifically, the Chamber has acknowledged SENER’s innovative work in the marine area through the development of its CAD/CAE/CAM software for the design and construction of ships and marine and ocean artifacts, the FORAN System. The Chamber feels that this advanced system has constituted an improvement in the productivity of shipyards and building companies in Biscay, since its tools make it possible to reduce time and costs in an environment as complex and global as the marine sector.

The Managing Director of SENER, Jorge Unda, picked up the award at the

ceremony held on November 29th in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Navigation. The event featured the presence of the Lehendakari (President) of the Basque Government, Patxi López, as well as the President of the Biscay Council, José Luis Bilbao, and representatives from local businesses and institutions. Besides SENER, other companies from Biscay were also distinguished with the ‘Makila of Honor 2010’ title, such as the Ormazabal Group and Ercilla Hoteles, as well as the Traders Association of the Ribera Market.

In the picture: Jorge Unda during the ceremony of the ‘Makila de Honor’ awards.

ONES MEDITERRÀNIA AWARD

Fuentes de Andalucía receives the Clean Technologies Recognition

The Fuentes de Andalucía City Hall has received the Clean Technologies Recog-nition in the XVII edition of the Ones Mediterrània awards, given out each year by the foundation Mediterrània-CIE.

Awarding this XVII Ones Mediterrània Award means a recognition of the City Hall’s work toward promoting clean energies and respecting the environment with many initiatives, such as clean water, green zones, nurseries for training, education and investment, sustainable social gardens, etc.

Amongst all of these initiatives, Gemasolar stands out: located in Fuentes de Andalucía, it is the first commercial scale solar plant constructed in the world with central tower technology and a heliostat field with molten salt storage system, technology which allows for increasing plant efficiency. Once in operation, Gemasolar will supply clean and safe energy to 25,000 homes and will reduce CO

2 emissions by more than

30,000 tons per year.


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project commences commercial operation. MANEL SALA has been named the new Country Manager for SENER in Algeria, taking on responsibility for both the commercial activities that SENER conducts in this country, as well as for SENER’s office in Algiers. As new Country Manager, his primary mission will be to lead SENER’s

ambitious strategic plan in Algeria. In turn, ANES SASSI is returning to the Communications and Software Section in Barcelona, facing renewed

professional challenges on the horizon, after having been the pioneering manager of SENER’s office in Algeria and having led it for several years. Likewise, RAMÓN VILARDELL, a

forerunner in SENER’s activity in Algeria, will coordinate the work of the Civil Engineering and Architecture Strategic Business Unit in the Southern Mediterranean Region, which includes countries such as Algeria - where the importance of work being carried out has called for the appointment of a specific Country Manager - as in

Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. The leadership structure of the Instrumentation Section of the Argentina Division (DAR) is experiencing the

following changes: SIMÓN RUBÍN, founder of this Section in the DAR, will take on the position of Project Director directly under the division’s management. In his place, JUAN RODOLFO

GARCÍA has been named to head up the Instrumentation Section. With 36 years of experience, particularly in the Oil & Gas sector, García has carried out a variety of projects in the Power sector during his tenure with SENER. Torresol Energy, a member company of the SENER Group, has added FELICIA BELLOWS as Executive Vice-President of Development at its

San Francisco (USA) office. Her duties include capitalizing on the knowledge of the Torresol Energy brand in the U.S., developing a portfolio of short, medium, and long-term projects, and helping Torresol Energy stand out on the North American market

as a company that deals not just with energy, but also with the operation and maintenance of solar thermal plants.

AWARD FOR INNOVATION

Hemendik award granted by the Deia newspaper

SENER has won the Hemendik award in the Innovation category, called ‘Berrikuntza Saria’, granted every year by the Deia newspaper to different companies and institutions from Biscay. The award comes in recognition of its record since it was founded in Bilbao in 1956, driven by the search for efficient and novel technological solutions. The President of SENER, Jorge Sendagorta, picked up the award from the President of the Biscay Council, José

METEOR PROGRAM

Deliver of the first unit to MBDA

On March 30th, SENER delivered the first Fin Actuation System (FAS) unit for the air-to-air missil Meteor to MBDA, a leading European group in missiles and missile systems.

SENER participates in the multinational program for the air-to-air Meteor missile as its design authority of the FAS Subsystem and is responsible for completing the development, performing the qualification and producing all the series units.

In the caption: FAS unit ready to be delivered to the client.

Luis Bilbao, during the ceremony held on Wednesday December 1st, in the Culture Hall of the municipality of Sopelana (Biscay).

The Hemendik awards granted by Deia, this year into their third edition, are divided into different categories such as Economy, Tourism, Culture, Social action and Sports, and highlight the records of different companies and institutions in the seven regions of Biscay.

Petronor, Concesionarios Automóviles Galindo and Puente de Vizcaya are some of the companies and institutions previously honored by these awards.

In the picture: Jorge Sendagorta picks up the Hemendik award to Innovation from José Luis Bilbao.


Technology

he development of a single-tank thermal storage system in concentrated solar power (CSP) plants stands out in the

new technologies research carried out by SENER’s Solar Area. This system would be an alternative to the current molten salt storage system, that SENER installs in the majority of its CSP projects, consisting of two tanks: one to store cold salts, and the other to store hot salts. In this way, SENER expects to gain a significant reduction in the investment required for this type of technology, thus facilitating the development of the thermosolar electricity generation market.

Thermal Storage SystemWith a storage system, thermosolar electric generation plants can keep producing electricity in

the absence of insolation; a fundamental difference compared to plants that do not use this system and the reason why the power block operates in more stable and constant conditions. The storage system also enables the annual capacity factor – the effective hours during which the plant can produce electricity – to increase, and to select the most appropriate times to feed power into the grid, according to tariff or demand.

SENER has been a pioneer company in the application of molten salt thermal storage systems in commercial plants, many of which are in commercial operation. Andasol 1, a project which storage system was developed by SENER, was the first plant to incorporate a thermal storage system in its design. In all projects developed by SENER for CSP plants with a storage system to date, the company has installed a dual-tank system to contain the molten salts, which are used to store the thermal energy. One of the tanks is used to store salts in their ‘cold’ state (at around 290°C), and the other is used to store salts in their ‘hot’ state (at around 390°C). Only half the tank’s capacity is used at any given time: when no energy is stored, the ‘cold’ tank is full, and the ‘hot’ tank is empty; when the stored energy is at maximum, the ‘cold’ tank is empty, and the ‘hot’ tank is full.

The Single-Tank SystemThe dual-tank system functions correctly and has been proved in commercial operation in various plants, demonstrating a high level of operational reliability. Even so, it is necessary to keep moving forward in the search for solutions that allow the cost of power generation to be reduced. With this in mind, and thanks to the experience

The reduction of investment costs in concentrated solar power plants is fundamental to create a competitive industry. Moreover, as the share of renewable energy in electricity generation increases, it is becoming more and more important to have systems available that facilitate the dispatchability of these plants. A thermal storage system that is efficient, reliable, and economically competitive contributes significantly to meeting these two objectives.

Single-Tank System for Thermal Storage

THERMOSOLAR PLANTS

Below: aerial view of the dual-

tank thermal storage system

in the Andasol 1 thermosolar

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Technology

acquired in the design, construction and operation of the dual-tank system, SENER is working on a single-tank storage system with an insulation barrier. The objective is to design, construct, and test a reduced-scale prototype in the Valle 2 commercial plant, which SENER is constructing for Torresol Energy in Cádiz, Spain. This innovative system uses just one tank to contain salts in both their cold and hot states, separated by an insulation barrier that naturally moves up and down according to the quantity of salts in each state.

In the single-tank system, the single tank has a capacity similar to that of one of the dual-system

tanks, and it is permanently full. In this system, all of the pumps have short shafts. These pumps are more common in the marketplace and, therefore, they are also less expensive.

With the new system comes not only the expectation of a significant reduction in storage costs, but also of an increase in production, as thermal losses are reduced by having just one tank instead of two.

Once this prototype is validated, SENER expects to start applying it on a commercial scale.

This new solution confirms SENER’s position as the technological leader in the thermosolar market.

Above: dual-tank storage system of Gemasolar’s central tower plant, with SENER technology. The company is also responsible of the design, construction and operation of the system.Below: simplified schematic of the single-tank system with insulation barrier. Source: Patent application document WO 2010/000892.

TECHNOLOGY LEADER. This demonstration system, together with other alternative equipment on which SENER is working, will mean a real reduction in the investment costs for solar plants that involve a storage system. In this way, this type of efficient and dispatchable thermal power plants will improve their economic competitiveness. As has already happened in

the case of dual-tank storage systems, the single-tank project is another innovation that can

become a reality in the global construction of the next CSP projects.

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In Brief

On February 16th, the thermosolar plant Extresol 2 located in Torre de Miguel Sesmero (Badajoz, Extremadura) was inaugurated. Extresol 2 is the second in a group of three 50 MWe solar plants to be inaugurated with parabolic trough technology that SENER is executing in joint venture with Cobra for ACS. All of the plants incorporate the SENERtrough system,

Inauguration of solar plantspatented by the company. Present at the plant’s inauguration ceremony were the Industry, Energy and Environment Counselor for the regional government of Extremadura, José Luis Navarro, the Subdelegate of the Spanish government in Extremadura, Yolanda García, the Managing Director for Energy and Mining Policy for the regional government

JEC

COMPOSITES

2011JEC Composites, the biggest European exhibition of the composite sector, has taken place between March 29th and 31st in Paris. SENER has been present with a booth in the Spanish pavilion, where it has shown its capabilities in composite processing technologies and their application in the aeronautics, railway and automotive industries.

UITP 2011From April 10th to 13th, SENER has taken part at the UITP Mobility and City Transport Exhibition in Dubai. From its booth, SENER has shown some of its projects in this sector, such as the Barcelona metro line 9, recent contracts in the United Arab Emirates, such as the Abu Dhabi Light Rail Transit System study; and projects

of Extremadura, Antonio Hernández, and the Mayor of Torre de Miguel Sesmero, José Navarrete.Also inaugurated, on February 22nd, was the SAMCA 2 thermosolar plant, known as ‘La Dehesa,’ belonging to SAMCA Renovables in the municipality of La Garrovilla, Badajoz. In this 50 MWe plant with parabolic trough technology and a molten-salt thermal storage system, SENER was in charge of the engineering work for the central island, including its Power Block, storage system and HTF collector system. SAMCA 2 is now the sixth plant in commercial operation of the 19 thermosolar plants in which SENER is involved. Guillermo Fernández Vara, President of the regional government of Extremadura, was present at the inauguration.In the caption, the political representatives performing the symbolic ‘start up’ of the Extresol 2 plant.

IDEX 2011SENER has taken part from February 20th to 24th in Abu Dhabi in the International Defense and Security Exhibition IDEX 2011, the largest defense and security event in the Middle East and North African region. The engineering and technology group has been showing its capacities as a design authority in missiles such as Meteor, IRIS-T and NSM, as major systems integrator in the

Sagitario program and in the Taurus KEPD 350 acquisition program for the Spanish Air Force F-18, as a main engineering company in space projects such as the SEOSAT satellite, and as a technology developer in biomedical systems, with the BIOSENer non-intrusive real-time physiological status monitoring system as star product.

SINAVAL 2011SENER was present at the SINAVAL marine conference, which was held in Bilbao from April 12th to 14th. At this pioneering milestone event for the Spanish marine market, the Company introduced the new version of FORAN V70, launched in November of 2010, which represents a significant qualitative leap forward as far as CAD/CAM systems for the marine sector are concerned. In this edition of the conference, SENER invited the company PTC to jointly present their integrated FORAN-PLM Windchill solution along with them at SENER’s stand.

The composite processing technologies Area of SENER carries out engineering and turn-key supply of manufacturing cells as well as research on process engineering and product development. In the turn-key project area SENER specializes on automation of

structural assembly processes and part production. Some examples of these projects are the wing stringer production and positioning cell for the A350 XWB, the design and production of HTP assembly stations 70 and 71 for the A350 XWB or the application of composite materials in the automotive industry. It can be pointed out that Spain has been the honored country in this edition, as a leading country in R&D in composites.In the picture, SENER engineers Pablo Gayá and Jaime Saenz in JEC Composites.

in Portugal, for instance the implantation and expansion of the Oporto metro; and in Colombia, such as the first line of the Bogota metro. This is third event in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with SENER’s participation in the last months. This growing presence in UAE shows the commercial links that SENER has with the country, especially with the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

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In Brief

SENER at the Bilbao Science Week

Gemasolar, a model of sustainable energy development in AustraliaThe non-governmental organization Beyond Zero Emissions, located in Australia, continues to show a special interest in the Gemasolar plant’s technology. Amongst the latest initiatives, the organization has independently

From November 11th to 14th the tenth Science Week, organized by the Basque Country University, was held in La Alhóndiga, in Bilbao, under the motto ‘Forbidden not to touch’. SENER took place in this event with a booth that invited Science Week visitors to become engineers. Playing a

WFES 2011From January 17th to 20th, SENER and Torresol Energy participated in the World Future Energy Summit, the largest renewable energy event in the world, in Abu Dhabi. This edition of WFES reconfirmed both companies’ leadership in concentrated solar power technology. The two companies’ shared stand was visited by numerous visitors. In addition, SENER’s Managing Director, Jorge Unda, was a speaker in the session ‘New Innovations in Solar Technology.’ Within the framework of the summit, an institutional and business mission of the Basque Country to the UAE took place, led by the President of the regional government, Patxi López, who also visited the stand of SENER and Torresol Energy, as shown in the picture.

Enerscapes at

GemasolarOn March 11th, a joint delegation from the Andalusian regional government and ENERSCAPES visited the Gemasolar plant, accompanied by the Technical Director of Torresol Energy O&M, Santiago Arias.ENERSCAPES is a project of the European Union that seeks to foster the use and implementation of renewable energies, and which is part of the Interreg IV B MED Transnational Cooperation program, covering the northern Mediterranean coast. The EU delegation’s interest in seeing Gemasolar’s innovative technology firsthand is just one more display of the global relevance this project has acquired, which has already piqued interest from the governments of Australia and the U.S., as well as from the authorities of the Arab League.

developed a model of the plant. The ecologist organization, which was visiting the plant in 2009, has recommended Gemasolar’s technology to the Australian government on several occasions for making manageable a renewable source such as solar energy; in the organization’s latest report, the ‘Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan’, wherein the opinion of expert groups from companies and institutions in the renewable energy industry, has also participated the Technical Director of Torresol Energy O&M, Santiago Arias. Besides, since 2008 Torresol Energy initiatives have been covered on the news, in reports and in interviews on Beyond Zero Emission’s channels, from their webpage to their radio of national scope.

MBDA visitA team from MBDA, a leading European group in missiles and missile systems, visited the facilities of SENER Madrid on January 13th, in the town of Tres Cantos. The team visited the Integration and Test Centre, where the plant that produces Meteor missile is located. There they were able to see the first pre-production unit

of the missile built by SENER, and also to witness several development tests.SENER and MBDA have a standing agreement to have SENER participate in the multinational program for the air-to-air Meteor missile as its design authority and as the FASS supplier for MBDA.In the picture, the MBDA team posed with SENER engineers in the Integration and Test Centre.

simple game, they had to find creative solutions to design and integrate an infrastructure into an urban environment. Participants had to choose a project that they then had to construct following determined techniques while taking environmental and economic factors into account to ensure a more rational and sustainable use of the environment. Therefore, the company approached, another year, the engineering activity to the Bilbao students, main visitors of this event.

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