Sevilla, March 1 - 42011

DSTDEPARTMENT OF SCIENCEAND TECHNOLOGY

MICINNMINISTERIO DE CIENCIA

E INNOVACIÓN

MICINN-DSTJOINT WORKSHOPON RENEWABLE ENERGY

La Giralda, Sevilla

Impreso en el MICINN │ Calle Albacete, 5 │ (28027 Madrid, Spain) │ Marzo 2011

Diseño y maquetación: José María Montes

Ignacio Atorrasagasti TelleríaDeputy Director General for International Programmes

Ministry of Science and Innovation

In January 2009 the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain

(MICINN) and the Department of Science and Technology, Govern­

ment of India (DST) signed an agreement on Scientific and Tech­

nological Cooperation, which was based on a framework

agreement between the two countries in force since 2007, in order

to deepen and expand their relations in the field of scientific and

technological research.

One of the instruments mentioned in this agreement to promote

scientific collaboration between both countries’ researchers is the

organization of joint thematic workshops to raise awareness of the

subject area’s general situation in each country and the research

being conducted in the various participants’ institutions. These

workshops demonstrate each country’s strengths and weaknesses

in a particular area as well as their complementarities and poten­

tial synergies, facilitating the identification of common interests­

all in an environment that promotes interaction between people

and enables the formation of new collaborative relationships bet­

ween groups from both countries.

This is the context of the Workshop on Renewable Energy to be

held in Seville from March 1st to 4th, 2011. This workshop streng­

thens the scientific cooperation already initiated in 2009, conti­

nuing the work of a similar meeting last year in Bangalore on

Information Technology and Communication and a call for projects

that has financed 25 joint projects.

The choice of the theme for this year's meeting is determined by

the desire to establish a closer and stronger partnership in a field

of great interest to both countries. Given that renewable energies

are playing an ever greater role in increasing energy efficiency and

in protecting the environment, the improvement of technologies,

materials and systems through research and development in this

field is crucial to improving our prospects for the future. This topic

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is an important part of the collaboration between India and Spain;

in fact, three of the joint research projects funded under the 2009

call already deal with this topic.

Seville is the ideal location for this workshop since it provides the

opportunity to visit two unique facilities of great interest in this

area of research. The first is the CIEMAT’s Solar Platform in Alme­

ria, the largest research, development and testing center in Europe

dedicated to solar concentrator technologies. The second is Aben­

goa Solar’s two solar tower plants in Sanlúcar la Mayor (Seville pro­

vince), the first commercial solar tower plants in the world. There

are also other interesting plants in the field of biomass, such as the

pilot plant in Alcala de Guadaira (Seville province) owned by the

company INERCO. Moreover, Seville is a city of many attractions,

which we hope our visitors will enjoy.

We owe many thanks to the event’s scientific coordinators, Spain’s

Drs Jesús Arauzo and Enrique Soria and India’s Professor Vikram

Kumar, for their successful efforts to put together such a strong

program and to draw leading experts in various aspects of rene­

wable energy to the workshop.

We are also grateful to the School of Engineering at the University

of Seville for hosting the workshop and to the University of Zara­

goza, to which Dr. Arauzo’s group belongs, for being the true pro­

moter of this meeting and for having made it possible. The

Spain­India Council Foundation generously hosted the event’s gala

dinner. Likewise, we must acknowledge the work of the MICINN

personnel who have collaborated in the preparation of this mee­

ting and without whom it would not have happened.

I am confident that this Indian­Spanish joint workshop will pro­

mote new links that will bear fruit in future projects developed

jointly by research groups from both countries.

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MICINN-DSTJOINT WORKSHOP

ON RENEWABLE ENERGY

Seville, March 1-4, 2011AGENDA

Tuesday, 1

Technical Visit planned for the Indian delegation

Plataforma Solar-Ciemat: Presentation by Francisco Martín Morillas (Direc-tor’s Cabinet)

Visit to the PSA facilities

All day

Lunch

Trip to Sevilla

Solar panels, Almería

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Wednesday, 2

Welcome to Sevilla (representatives from U. Sevilla)Opening words (representatives from MICINN & DST delegations)

9.30-10.00

Overview of Photovoltaic R&D in IndiaProf. Vikram Kumar. IIT D. (India)

&Solar Power generation in IndiaProf. S.S. Murthy. IIT M. (India)

Spanish Photovoltaic Energy R&D OverviewDr. José Herrero. CIEMAT (Spain)

10.00

10:30

Advances in wafer based crystalline Si cell TechnologyProf. Chetan Solanki.IIT B (India)

R&D on crystalline silicon technology: from metallurgical silicon to the PVmoduleDr. Carlos del Cañizo. IES-UPM (Spain)

Organic Photovoltaics R&D in IndiaProf. Vikram Kumar. IIT D. (India) / Dr. S.S.K. Iyer, IIT K (India)

Silicon Solar CellsDr. Emilio Palomares. ICIQ-ICREA (Spain)

11:30

12:00

12:30

13:00

Thermal Energy Storage for Solar Thermal Power Plant -Methods and MaterialsProf. P. Muthukumar. IIT G (India)

CSP in Spain. Actual situation and perspectivesDr. Valeriano Ruiz. PROTERMOSOLAR & Dr. Manuel Silva. University of Seville(Spain)

Solar Cooling Technologies: Indian experiences and perspectivesProf. S. S. Murthy. IIT M. (India)

15:00

15:30

16:00

Research and Development in CSP. Technical ChallengesDr. Eduardo Zarza. CIEMAT-PSA (Spain)

Thermal Storage - Sensible heat storageProf. R. P. Saini. IIT R (India)

CSTP - The road towards grid parityDr. Marcelino Sánchez. CENER (Spain)

CENER activities in support of the CSTP IndustryDr. Manuel Blanco. CENER (Spain)

17.00

17:30

18:00

18:30

Transfer to the hotel

Transfer to restaurant Casa Manolo León

Return to the hotel

19:00

20:00

23:00

Cofee break

Lunch

Opening Session

Cofee break

Session on Photovoltaics

Session on Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)

10.00 - 13:30

11:00

15.00 - 19:00

13.30 - 15:00

16:30

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Energy from BiomassProf. P. J. Paul. SSCI (India)

Spanish Biomass OverviewDr. Margarita de Gregorio. BIOPLAT (Spain)

09:30

10:00

Thursday, 3

Session on Biomass and Biofuels

Cofee break

Spanish Biofuels OverviewDr. Mercedes Ballesteros. CIEMAT (Spain)

Visit to the University of Seville facilities and labs

JOINT OPPORTUNITIES: Round table and General DiscussionConcluding Remarks

11:00

11:30 - 12:00

12:00

Lunch

Biomass thermochemical processing & Biofuels 2nd GenerationDr. Pedro Ollero. University of Seville (Spain)

R&D on Biomass and Biofuels at the University of Seville.Dr. Alberto Gómez Barea. University of Seville (Spain)

14:30

15:00

Transfer to the hotel18:00-19:00

Technical Visit

09:30 - 12:30

10:30

13:00 - 14:30

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Bus transfer (1 h.)

Visit to the INERCO Biomass & Waste Gasification Plant

15:30-18:00

Technical Visit planned for the Indian delegation

Visit to the ABENGOA Solar Installations PS10 and PS20

10.00 – 14:00

Friday, 4

Lunch

Transfer to the hotel

End of Meeting

16:00

14:00

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CONCLUSSION ONJOINT OPPORTUNITIES

GENERAL

• To identify new common projects and R& D Groups.

• Annual event.

• To establish a platform on Science and Technology on RenewableEnergies for future collaboration.

• To open this workshop to technological companies on R.E.

• Exchange of pre and postdoc students.

PV (Photovoltaics)

• New materials for panels.

• New design.

• New cells.

• Polysilicon.

CSP (Concentrated Solar Power)

• New concepts.

• New materials.

• New fluids.

• Cooling systems.

• Solar Energy production + Water production.

BIOMASS

• Hydrogen Separation for fuel cells.

• Syngas and F-T. 2nd biofuels generation.

• Gasification.

• Biofuels.

• Hi-T fuel cells.

March, 3, 2011

WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION

Jesus Arauzo – Universidad de Zaragoza - jarauzo@unizar.esEnrique Soria - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales yTecnológicas (CIEMAT) - enrique.soria@ciemat.esVikram Kumar - Centre for Applied research in Electronics (CARE), IndianInstitute of Technology New Delhi - vkmr@physics.iitd.ac.in

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (DST)DELEGATION - SPEAKERS

Chetan Singh Solanki - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay -chetanss@iitb.ac.inPalanisamy Muthukumar - Department of Mechanical Engineering; IndianInstitute of Technology Guwahati - pmkumar@iitg.ernet.inSrikantiah Srinivasa Murthy - Department of Mechanical Engineering; IndianInstitute of Technology Madras - ssmurthy@iitm.ac.inRajeshwer Prasad Saini - Alternate Hydro Energy Centre; Indian Institute ofTechnology Roorkee - saini.rajeshwer@gmail.comPalakat Joseph Paul - CGPL, Depart of Aerospace Engineering; Indian Instituteof Science - paulpj@cgpl.iisc.ernet.inVikram Kumar – CARE; Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi -vkmr@physics.iitd.ac.inSubramaniam Sundar Kumar Iyer - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur -sskiyer@iitk.ac.in

SPANISH MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION(MICINN) DELEGATION – SPEAKERS

José Herrero - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales yTecnológicas (CIEMAT) - jose.herrero@ciemat.esCarlos Del Cañizo - Instituto de Energía Solar – Universidad Politécnica deMadrid (IES – UPM) - canizo@ies-def.upm.esEmilio Palomares - Institut Català d'Investigació Química (ICIQ) -epalomares@ICIQ.esLuis Crespo - Asociación Española de la Industria Solar Termoeléctrica(Protermosolar) - luiscrespo@protermosolar.comValeriano Ruiz - Asociación Española de la Industria Solar Termoeléctrica(Protermosolar) - valeriano.ruiz@ctaer.comEduardo Zarza - Plataforma Solar de Almería - (CIEMAT_PSA) -eduardo.zarza@psa.esManuel Blanco - Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables (CENER) -mblanco@cener.comMarcelino Sánchez - Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables (CENER) - msanchez@cener.com

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Margarita De Gregorio - Plataforma Tecnológica Española de la Biomasa (BIOPLAT) - margadegregorio@bioplat.orgMercedes Ballesteros - Centro de Investigaciones EnergéticasMedioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT) - m.ballesteros@ciemat.esPedro Ollero - Universidad de Sevilla - ollero@esi.us.es

SPANISH REPRESENTATIVES

Ramón González Carvajal – Universidad de Sevilla – Vicerrectorado deTransferencia Tecnológica - carvajal@us.esJohan Wideberg - – Universidad de Sevilla – Escuela Técnica Superior deIngeniería - wideberg@us.esIgnacio Atorrasagasti – Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN)- Subdirección General de Programas Internacionales - ignacio.atelleria@micinn.esCristina Bauluz – Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN)- Subdirección General de Programas Internacionales - cristina.bauluz@micinn.esCarolina González -– Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN)- Subdirección General de Programas Internacionales – carolina.gonzalezh@micinn.es

SPANISH MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION(MICINN) DELEGATION – OTHER PARTICIPANTS

Julio Carabe - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales yTecnológicas (CIEMAT) – julio.carabe@ciemat.esAna Rosa Lagunas - Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables (CENER) –alagunas@cener.comJulian Blanco - Plataforma Solar de Almería - (CIEMAT_PSA) –julian.blanco@psa.esAlberto Coronas - Departamento Maquinas y Motores Térmicos de laUniversidad Rovira i Virgili – alberto.coronas@urv.catAlberto Gonzalo - Universidad de Zaragoza - agonca@unizar.es

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Vikram KumarIndian Institute of Technology New Delhi

Abstract: “Overview of Photovoltaic R & D in India”

It was recognized very early that India needs to harness solar energy. This received

a new impetus last year when the Indian government launched an ambitious Jawa­

harlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM). The mission envisages deployment of

20,000 MW of solar power by 2022. The mission places special emphasis on ‘R&D for

Solar India’. A major R&D initiative to focus on creating conditions for research and ap­

plications is part of the Mission.

There is considerable research on all aspects of PV in India at various centres which

will be briefly brought out in this talk. Crystalline and multicrystalline silicon solar

cells are being investigated at NPL and some of the work will be brought. Bharat

Heavy Electricals (BHEL) is investigating passivated interface solar cell structures.

Amorphous silicon solar cell technology is also being investigated intensively at IACS

and also at HHV. Work on CIGS solar cells and DSSC will be reported.

Several groups are looking into the Organic solar cells as well as nanocomposite solar

cells. Recently some groups have started looking into plasmonics as an aid to improve

solar cell efficiency. These will also be mentioned.

Abstract: “Solar Power generation in India”

India is in the solar belt of the world. High incidence of solar radiation, geographic la­

titude, and demand pattern of energy provide appropriate conditions for utilization of

solar energy for power generation in the country. In addition, significant potential for

harnessing solar power is derived from the excellent technical infrastructure, manu­

facturing capability and the immense manpower available in the Country. The Jawa­

harlal Nehru National Solar Mission launched by the Prime Minister last year aims to

achieve the following goals:

Policy framework is already in place and the activities of first phase have already star­

ted. Accelerated RD&D programs have started with overwhelming enthusiasm and

support of both public and corporate sector.

The author is the Chairman of the Sectoral Project Advisory Committee on Solar Ther­

mal Technologies of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and in this

talk the various achievements in solar thermal power are discussed.

Srikantiah Srinavasa MurthyIndian Institute of Technology Madras

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José Herrero Rueda, Staff Senior Researcher, has been working as research scientist

at the CIEMAT­DER for the past 26 years. His main interests are in the field of thin­film

materials for photovoltaic solar cells. His Ph.D. thesis was based on the preparation

and characterization of compounds I­II­VI2 (CuInS2 and CuInSe2) by electrochemical

methods for photovoltaic applications. He has also a broad experience in material

science, electrochemistry, physical­chemistry and application of the solar energy to

photocatalytic process. During the last years he is involved at National and European

level in issues related to Photovoltaic policy and dissemination and strategies for PV

deployment, also was one of members and founders of the Spanish Photovoltaic Tech­

nology Platform. He is the author or co­author of over 170 publications in scientific

journals and conference proceedings. He has supervised several Ph.D. students in the

above areas and he is member of different scientific organizations.

He has an H­index over 25 (February 2011, Materials Science)

Presently on behalf of the Spanish Ministry of Science an Innovation (MICINN) parti­

cipates as governmental representative in the “Photovoltaic Mirror Group” within of

the activities of the European Photovoltaic Technological Platform”. Also is represen­

tative of the Spanish’s Ministries of Industry (MICYT) and MICINN in the European

Committee: Solar European Industrial Initiative Team (SEEI­Team), supported by Eu­

ropean Commission, Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET­Plan) Secretariat.”

Abstract: “Spanish Photovoltaic Energy R&D Overview”

Photovoltaic RTD activities in Spain are developed on two contexts: the European and

National Programmes and Plans. Both contexts have actions focussed in specific pho­

tovoltaic issues. The European context is, nowadays, determined by the 7th European

Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7), being

FP7 a key tool to respond to Europe's needs in terms of: jobs and competitiveness,

maintaining a leadership position in the global knowledge economy. Also, an impor­

tant European framework is the Strategic Energy technology Plan (SET­Plan). The

SET­Plan, adopted in November 2007, is the technology pillar of the EU's energy and

climate change policy, in order to accelerate the development of low carbon techno­

logies leading to their market take­up (transition to a low­carbon economy by 2050).

R&D Spanish National Plan (2008­2011) has not a specific R&D Program in Photo­

voltaics, but within the Plan the energy programme offers and area for renewable

energies and new technologies, including Photovoltaic.

During the workshop a concise but compressive overview of the major actions on

Photovoltaic RTD in Spain will be presented.

José Herrero RuedaCIEMAT

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Dr. Chetan Singh Solanki is currently Associate Professor in Department of Energy

Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India. He is

an expert crystalline Si technology, Si­nanostructures (including quantum dots), thin

film Si solar cells, PV concentrator systems and carbon nanotubes. He received his Ph.D.

degree from the specialist silicon laboratory, IMEC (Inter­university Micro­electronics

Center, Ketholike University, Leuven, Belgium).

He won an EMRS (European Material Research Society) young scientist award in 2003

and IIT Bombay Young Investigator Award in 2009. He has also been awarded at seve­

ral international conferences for research papers. He has authored several books in the

area of renewable energy, one of them is on solar PV which is titled as “Solar Photo­

voltaics: Fundamentals, Technologies and Applications (ISBN: 978­81­203­3760­2)”.

One other book in renewable energy area is titled as “Renewable Energy Technologies:

a practical guide for beginners” (ISBN:978­81­203­3434­2). This book is also transla­

ted in Hindi. He holds three US patents (patent no. 6649485, patent no. 964732, patent

no. 7022585) and filled 4 Indian patent applications.

He has worked on several sponsored projects by government as well as companies. The

projects are focused on crystalline Si solar cells both wafer based as well as thin film

nano materials based. Recently Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has sponsored

a project titled as “National Center for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE)”

where he is one of the Principle Investigators. Currently he is working on projects spon­

sored by Applied Materials, MCIT, MNRE.

He has given short term courses on solar PV technologies for companies like Applied

Materials, Mahagenco, TataBP Solar and BEL. He has also provided consultancy on solar

PV to several organizations. He is in the five member national committee on Special In­

centive Package Scheme (SIPS) of DIT, Govt. of India for technical evaluation of solar PV

projects.

Abstract: “Advances in wafer based crystalline Si cell Technology”

Abstract: Crystalline Si (c­Si) has been the workhorse of solar PV industry ever since it

is used for commercial production of solar cells. Today, when the annual worldwide

production is in over 10 GWp range, c­Si contributes over 75%. Despite the maturity of

c­Si cell technology, the average cell efficiencies at industrial scale in India are in about

15­17% range while there have been demonstration of cell efficiencies over 24%. Ef­

forts are in progress to get higher c­Si cell efficiencies at industrial scale by developing

alternative metallization, alternative surface passivation and alternative solar cell struc­

tures. Under alternative metallization techniques development of Ni/Cu and Ni/Co con­

tacts are being researched. In case of passivation techniques the use of a­Si, Al2O3,

double layer ARC etc are being worked out. While considering the alternative 3D junc­

tion structures are under study. The results in above areas will be presented.

Chetan Singh SolankiIndian Institute of Technology Bombay

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Carlos del Cañizo is Engineer in Telecommunications, and has been involved in Pho­

tovoltaics since 1994. He received the PhD degree from the Universidad Politécnica de

Madrid in 2000, and is currently working on silicon solar cell fabrication and charac­

terization. As responsible person of the Silicon Technology Programme of the Instituto

de Energía Solar in Madrid, he has a long experience in fabrication and characterisa­

tion of solar cells. He also works on the topic of silicon ultrapurification for photo­

voltaic applications. He is supporting the CENTESIL initiative to build a R&D pilot

plant of polysilicon via chlorosilanes.

Abstract: “R&D on crystalline silicon technology: from metallurgical siliconto the PV module”

Crystalline silicon technology has been the workhorse of Photovoltaics since its birth,

and has still potential to decrease costs so as to make PV solar energy competitive.

Considerations on the current cost breakdown of the technology show the topics that

should be a matter of research. An overwiew of the most relevant ones will be pre­

sented, with special emphasis on the topics that are currently being a matter of rese­

arch by Spanish institutions. Examples of projects in which the Instituto de Energía

Solar from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid is involved will be given.

Carlos del CañizoInstituto de Energía Solar UPM

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(1977­92: Faculty, IISc, Bangalore; 1992­2003: Director, SSPL (DRDO); 2003­09: Director, NPL (CSIR);

2009­ Faculty, IIT Delhi)

Prof. Vikram Kumar is well known in the area of semiconductor materials characterization and device

technology.

His early work on ultra thin oxide MOS structures is cited widely. His extensive work towards the unders­

tanding of electronic defects and interface states in silicon, III–V and II–VI semiconductors lead to the pres­

tigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1992.

He has contributed towards the development of technology of materials and devices some of which have

reached production stage. His team developed the technology of 0.7 µm gate ion implanted MESFET and

0.5 µm pseudomorphic HEMT using MBE grown strained layer AlGaAs/InGaAs/GaAs structures. He led

the team for setting up GaAs Enabling Technology Centre (GAETEC) foundry for pilot production of mo­

nolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) that is supplying devices to various users including defence

and space. His team has also developed the technology for growth of single crystals of CdZnTe and GaAs and

supplied device quality wafers. He also contributed to the development HgCdTe based PV and PC infra­red

detectors. Kumar is currently working in the area of polymer electronics. He initiated programmes on si­

licon and organic solar cells at NPL. In particular, he has been modelling carrier transport in organic

materials.

Prof Kumar has published over 165 papers in reputed journals and co­authored a book. He has been con­

tributing to the development of science and technology in India as member of several nationally important

committees. He played a key role in starting the National Programme on Smart Materials, and as Chair­

man of the committee for development of devices, has guided the development of MEMS technology in

India. He is the Chairman of the working group on Nanoelectronics for the Department of Information

Technology. He is the Chairman of the Expert Group for Solar Energy Research set up by the Department

of Science and Technology. He is member of the Committee for PV Research set up by the Ministry of New

and Renewable Energy. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Indian National Academy of En­

gineering and Institution of Electronic and Communication Engineers in addition to being a member/chair

of several professional societies.

Abstract: “Organic Photovoltaics R & D in India”

During the last decade, excitement aroused by Nanomaterial R&D and resurgence of interest in Photovol­

taics have been rather spectacular. It is now becoming abundantly clear that in next generation PV devi­

ces nanomaterials will play an important role. Some aspects of this confluence of interest witnessed globally

and particularly Indian R&D efforts will be reviewed in this presentation. Several groups are looking into

the Organic solar cells as well as nanocomposite solar cells. Recently some groups have started looking

into plasmonics as an aid to improve solar cell efficiency. These will also be mentioned.

The two distinguishing attributes of a nanomaterial, namely large surface area and enlargement of band

gap due to quantum confinement effects, make nanomaterial particularly attractive for PV device deve­

lopment. The interest was fired by studies which predicted very high conversions efficiencies. Semicon­

ductor quantum dots, wires as also nanotubes have been used in different PV devices, mostly at the R&D

level till date. Mono­dispersed Q dots are formed by well known colloidal chemistry route. CdS, CdSe, PbSe

are the preferred semiconductors. With different sizes of QD, one can tailor the band gaps to cover the en­

tire useful solar region to absorb photons, and tandem solar cells of high efficiency can, thus, be configu­

red. Both organic solar cells with PEDOT, and nanocrystal sensitized TiO2 based solar cells have been

proposed. In India, amongst other places, NPL, New Delhi is active in the synthesis of such Q dots solar

cells. They are also actively researching nano­ phosphors up conversion and down conversion approaches

for PV. Additionally, research at IIT Delhi and Kanpur will also be presented.

Vikram KumarIndian Institute of Technology New Delhi

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Dr. Emilio Palomares is ICREA Professor and ERC fellow at the Institute of Chemical

Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Tarragona, Spain. His group focuses on the develop­

ment of molecular photovoltaic devices and the study of the interfacial charge trans­

fer reactions that limit the devices performance under operating conditions. Dr.

Palomares has published more than 95 peer­reviewed papers in scientific journals

and holds 4 international patents. Dr. Palomares has been the project coordinator of

the largest project in molecular photovoltaics in Spain (PSE­ FotoMol) and partici­

pates in several EU funded research projects under the FP7 program.

Abstract: “Silicon Solar Cells”

The need of cheaper alternatives to Silicon solar cells is a must in order to fulfil the

energetic expectations worldwide. As the global population grows and live longer

much energy will be need to keep our current lifestyle.

Molecular photovoltaics (MPV) can provide a route towards less expensive solar

cells that can implement the energy market together with Silicon based photovol­

taic devices. The MPV can find different application niches such as Building Inte­

grated Photovoltaics (BIPV) or indoor applications. During my lecture I will show

several MPV, their present and future applications as well as the processes that are

limiting the solar­to­energy conversion efficiency still on these devices.

Emilio PalomaresInstitut Català d’Investigació Química

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B.E: Mechanical Engineering, University of Madras, Chennai.

M.E: Refrigeration and Air­conditioning (Mechanical Engineering), Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore.

Ph.D: Studies on metal hydride based thermal devices for compression and storage of hydrogen, IIT

Madras, Dec. 2004.

Research Interests: Hydrogen Storage, Metal hydride based thermal machines, Sorption heat pumps,

Thermal energy storage, Porous medium combustion.

Major On going projects Research Project:1. ­ Development of a metal hydride based thermal energy storage systems, DST, Government of India,

2007­2010.

2. ­ Numerical and Experimental Analysis for the Development of a Metal Hydride Based Hydrogen

Energy Storage Device, MNRE, Government of India, 2008­2010.

3. ­ Development of an efficient Parallel code for large­scale Radiation modeling (PARAD), Indo – Italy

Sponsored Project, 2008­2010.

Major Completed Research / consultancy Projects:4. ­ Porous Radiant Burners for LPG Cooking Stove, Petroleum Conservation Research Association, New

Delhi. 2008­2009.

5. ­ Design and Development of Kerosene Stove with Porous Burner, Petroleum Conservation Research

Association, New Delhi.2008­2009.

6. ­ Technology Survey on Thermo Acoustic, Magnetic, Absorption and Sterling Refrigeration Technolo­

gies, Robert Bosch, Bangalore.

7. ­ Confirmation Of Nucleation Site Formation in the Commercial Refrigerators, Robert Bosch,

Bangalore.

Publications: • Int Journal: 18 published + 6 communicated.

• National patent: Porous radiant burner for domestic LPG cooking stove ­ filed.

Abstract: “Thermal Energy Storage for Solar Thermal PowerPlant­Methods and Materials”

Thermal energy storage (TES) systems correct the mismatch between the supply and demand of energy.

Thermal capacity and charging and discharging rates are the important factors to be considered while

designing the system. However, the selection of an appropriate system depends on the permanent cost,

technical and environmental issues. The cost of a TES system mainly depends on the storage material and

the heat exchanger for charging and discharging the system.

Recently, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India has taken an initiative to develop small

scale solar thermal power stations (up to 1 MW) for supplying electricity to rural and remote locations.

The solar energy will be harnessed by Fresnel mirror and Parabolic trough technologies. The plant will

be designed with thermal energy storage systems to ensure stable power availability during adverse

weather conditions as well as for start up of the thermal plant at the start of the day. It is proposed to

store the excess energy absorbed during the day time in the form of high pressure water (temperature

range up to 250°C) and sensible heat in the range of 400­500°C. Steam accumulators represent an at­

tractive option for facilitating the operation of solar thermal power plants by offering short time energy

storage.

In this talk, the development of a solar thermal energy storage system for 1 MW solar power station will

be discussed. The various techniques and the types of materials used for solar thermal storage system

will be highlighted. An overview about the various sensible and latent heat storage materials used in

solar thermal power plants across the world will be presented. The development of metal hydride based

thermal energy storage system for portable and small­scale applications and some of the key issues

associated with the development of such systems will be also presented.

Palanisamy MuthukumarIndian Institute of Technology Guwahati

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Manuel SilvaUniversidad de Sevilla

Manuel Silva is Doctor in Industrial Engineering by the University of Seville. He is currently As­

sociate Professor at the Department of Energy Engineering at the same University, and develops

its R&D activity in the Group of Thermodynamics and Renewable Energy since 1985.

His work has focused primarily on the use of solar energy at medium and high temperature by

means of the so­called Solar Thermal Concentrating Systems. He has participated actively, with

varying levels of responsibility in many significant projects in this field, including the PS10 pro­

ject, coordinated by Abengoa, where he was responsible for the estimation of the solar resource

at the project site; the SIREC project, a technology development program for central receiver

systems, conducted jointly between the University of Seville and CIEMAT, with the collaboration

of Inabensa (Abengoa Group), the Colon­Solar Project (Integration solar energy in a conventional

power station), where he assumed the technical coordination of the solar field engineering; the

conceptual design of a solar energy system for an integrated solar­gas combined cycle in Al Ku­

raymat (Egypt) in the frame of the INTERSUDMED Project, and the SOLGAS Project (hybrid solar­

gas cogeneration plant for a chemical plant), coordinated by SODEAN where he was assistant

coordinator of the project.

During the last 5 years, he has coordinated several feasibility studies for CSP plants in Spain and

other countries and R&D activities like those related to CONSOLIDA, a R&D Project coordinated

by Abengoa Solar and funded by the Spanish CENIT Program. From 2006 to 2008 he was Secre­

tary General of the Spanish Association of the CSP Industry, Protermosolar.

He previously worked at the Plataforma Solar de Almeria (PSA) (1985­1990), participating in

numerous projects and assuming different responsibilities, among others, the direction of the vo­

lumetric receiver tests, the reconstruction and improvement of the control system of the CRS he­

liostat field, participation in the development of low cost heliostats or design of networks

communications and control and data acquisition systems of the PSA. He has also worked for

Landis & Gyr Spain, where he was technical manager of the area of Supervisory Control and Data

Acquisition Systems within the R & D Laboratory, and Isotrol, where he was responsible of the

industrial automation area.

Abstract: “CSP in Spain. Actual situation and perspectives”

Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems generate electricity from solar energy by first con­

centrating the solar radiation by means of concentrators, generally made of mirrors, to generate

high­temperature thermal energy at the receiver and then converting the thermal energy to elec­

tricity by means of a thermal engine and a generator. CSP is a source of renewable electricity

with two unique features: its capacity to store a fraction of the thermal energy generated by the

system for latter utilization and the ability to combine solar energy with other sources of thermal

energy –for example, a renewable fuel like biomass or a fossil fuel like natural gas –

in the so­called hybrid plants.

The impressive growth of the CSP sector in Spain during the last few years has been based on

three main factors: the continued R&D effort since the 1980’s at Plataforma Solar de Almería

(PSA) and some Universities, the existence of an industrial sector committed with the technology

and a favourable regulatory frame, based on feed­in tariffs. At this moment, the CSP installed ca­

pacity in Spain exceeds 800 MW, with approved plans to build up to 2400 MW until the end of

2012. Most of the Spanish CSP plants are based on the parabolic trough technology, but the other

CSP technologies –Central Receiver or Tower systems, Linear Fresnel Concentrators and Parabo­

lic Dishes­ are also represented. The presentation is a brief review of the present status of the

CSP sector in Spain and its perspectives in the short to medium term.

Prof. Srinivasa Murthy joined IIT Madras in 1969 as a Graduate Student and as a Faculty in 1975. Since then, hehas held many academic positions including Chairman­Mechanical Engineering Department, Dean­IndustrialConsultancy & Sponsored Research, Dean – Alumni Affairs, Member­Board of Governors, etc. He is the foundingmember of the renowned Refrigeration and Airconditioning Laboratory at IIT Madras.

In the past four decades, Prof. Murthy has worked on Coupled Heat and Mass Transfer problems in various ap­plications such as Sorption Refrigeration; Heat Pumps and Heat Transformers; Solar Thermal Energy Utilisa­tion for Power and Cooling; and Solid State Hydrogen Storage. He has developed vapour compression heat pumpand refrigeration systems based on non­azeotropic mixtures covering a wide range of cryogenic to process he­ating applications. He has pioneered the development of HFC and HCFC based wet­sorption cooling systems forsolar thermal energy utilization. In 1977, he had a major role in the development of the first ORC based solar ther­mal power plant in India. In recent years, extensive analytical and experimental works have been carried out onvarious aspects of sorption of gases in static beds with applications to adsorption cooling and solid state hydro­gen storage in metal hydrides and alanates. In the area of solar thermal technologies, Prof. Murthy has supervi­sed a large number of sponsored research and industrial consultancy projects both in India and abroad, especiallyAustralia, Germany, European Union, etc.

Prof. Murthy has published over 330 research papers including about 160 in refereed International Journals,and has supervised 28 Doctoral and over 100 Masters theses. He has received many awards including ‘Pioneer’award of the International Energy Foundation and Hari­Om Ashram Bhatnagar Award for Energy Conservation.He is a Fellow of six professional Academies and Societies.

Prof. Murthy has been a Visiting Professor at several foreign universitiesis; and is a Member of Scientific Coun­cil of International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer; Country Delegate to the Assembly for International HeatTransfer Conferences and Country Representative to the International Institute of Refrigeration. Prof. Murthy isthe Regional Editor of Applied Thermal Engineering (Elsevier) and is in the Editorial Boards of several Interna­tional Journals. Till recently, he was the President of the Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer. Currently, heis a Vice President of Solar Energy Society of India.

Abstrac: “Solar Cooling Technologies: Indian experiences and persperctives”

It is estimated that the energy consumption for refrigeration and airconditioning, including domestic, industrial

and commercial applications, is over 20% of the total electricity produced in India. These cooling demands range

from comfort cooling to sub­zero temperatures for cold storage applications. While it is well known that solar

energy can supply the motive force required for cooling applications, the main challenge is to overcome the fa­

vourable economy of the conventional electricity driven systems. This calls for the development of high effi­

ciency sorption systems coupled to high efficiency solar collection systems.

The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) has formulated the following goals with emphasis on green,

efficient, reliable and cost­effective technologies:

I) To develop and promote solar air conditioning systems in the wide capacity range of 1 TR to say 100 TR for

applications in domestic, commercial and industrial sectors.

II) To develop and promote solar cooling systems for cold storage of perishable foods such as milk, fish, fruits,

vegetables, etc.

III) To develop and promote small portable refrigerators for vaccine storage in remote rural health centers and

also for domestic application in residential sector.

There are many demonstration plants in operation in various parts of India. Also, R&D programs are in force in

many academic institutions and some industrial establishments.

In the past three decades, the author has extensively worked on absorption cooling technologies applicable to

solar energy utilization. For the MNRE, the author is the Chairman of the Sectoral Committees on Solar Thermal

and Solar Cooling Technologies. This talk covers the author’s experience on the existing solar cooling systems.

Ongoing efforts and future plans are also briefly discussed.

Srikantiah Srinavasa MurthyIndian Institute of Technology Madras

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Dr. Eduardo Zarza Moya. He was born in 1958 in Huelva (Spain). He got his Masters

degree in Industrial Engineering in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from

the University of Seville in 2003.

At present he is working at the Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA), which is the lar­

gest R+D centre in the world devoted to solar concentrating systems. He is the head

of the PSA R+D Unit on Solar Concentrating Systems, composed of 30 scientists and

researchers working on industrial applications of concentrated solar radiation, in­

cluding electricity production, hydrogen production and industrial heat processes in

the range from 125ºC to 2000ºC.

He has been working for the last 25 years with solar concentrating systems. He has

been the director of several national and international R+D projects related to solar

energy and parabolic trough collectors. His specific R+D areas have been: solar sea­

water desalination, parabolic trough solar collectors and direct steam generation. He

has written three books, 12 book chapters and more than 45 proceeding in interna­

tional congresses on solar energy. He has organized several national and internatio­

nal courses and seminars related to solar energy. He is a peer reviewer of many

scientific magazines and publications (Solar Energy, ASME Journal of Solar Energy

Engineering, Applied Thermal Engineering, ENERGY ­ The International Journal y

Chemical Engineering and Processing, and others). He collaborates in many Masters

courses and seminars devoted to renewable energies and efficiency. To date, he has

given more than 65 technical lecturers. He is a member of the Spanish AENOR stan­

dardization committee for solar thermal power plants.

Abstract: “Research and Development in CSP. Technical Challenges”

Although solar thermal power plants with parabolic­trough collectors are now pro­

fitable in a few countries due to public incentives in the form of feed­in tariffs or tax

credits, it is clear that ways to improve efficiency and reduce costs must be found, be­

cause the current public incentives will be progressively reduced in the future. The

main goal of current incentives is to make the first commercial projects financially fe­

asible for investors, thereby stimulating the implementation of first plants. Pushed

by the need to improve the technology and reduce the cost of the electricity genera­

ted, many private and public entities worldwide are carrying out a significant num­

ber of R&D projects to improve components, operation and maintenance procedures,

and solar system­to­power block connection. An overview of current technical cha­

llenges to be solved in order to achieve a significant cost reduction and a higher en­

vironmental sustainabilityof CSP plants will be made in this presentation, pointing

out the objectives that should be defined for R+D activities related to CSP in a short

to medium term.

Eduardo Zarza MoyaCIEMAT ­ PSA

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Dr. R.P. Saini obtained his Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engg. from University of Mysore

in 1982, Master and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Roorkee in 1989

and 1996 respectively. Presently he is working as Associate Professor in Alternate Hydro

Energy Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee since the last 27 years or so. His

specific research area are (I) Solar energy­Development of efficient solar air heaters,

packed­bed thermal storage (II) Small Hydro Power­optimization of small hydro plant

installations, cost effective designs of Micro Hydro Power plants, and effect of silt ero­

sion (III) Integrated Renewable energy­Modeling of Integrated Renewable energy and

hybrid energy systems. He has published 175 Research Papers in International / Natio­

nal Journals and Seminars / Conferences, guided 12 Ph.D. thesis and another 6 are in

progress. He has also guided 62 M.Tech. dissertation and 58 M.Tech. projects. Besides,

handled about 110 Consultancy and Sponsored Projects, organised about 22 Interna­

tional/National training courses. Two patents on water mills development have also

been granted. International projects like UNDP­GEF Hilly Hydro project, New Small

Hydro Options, R&M DPR with Canada, Training and CIDA – SHP Technology Transfer

with CANMET, Canada, Training of SHP Projects in neighboring countries were also

handled by him.

Abstract: “Thermal Storage ­ Sensible heat storage”

Thermal storage basically are of two types viz. Sensible heat storage and Latent heat

storage.

This presentation will focus on sensible heat storage covering the following aspects:

• Basic principle.

• Storage materials used for storage of solar energy.

• Current status of Research and development.

• Future scope and challenges.

Sensible Heat Storage systems are based on the principle that the phase of energy sto­

rage material does not change during the heat transfer. The storage is effected by raising

the temperature of the storage medium and accordingly it is necessary for the storage

medium to have high heat capacity, long term stability under thermal cycling, compati­

bility with its containments and most significantly the low cost. The storage may be fur­

ther classified as liquid and solid media storage. Our work is confined to the packed bed

solid media storage only because the Packed bed is generally recommended for sensi­

ble heat storage in solar air heaters. Most of the investigators have used small size sto­

rage materials like gravel, rocks, pebbles etc. to evaluate the thermal and hydrodynamic

performance of the packed bed solar energy storage systems. As an further extension of

this work, an extensive and systematic investigations have been carried out by us to

study the effect of shape of large size material elements in order to improve the heat

transfer characteristics of the storage systems. Based on the study, optimum designs

curves have been developed that can be used to predict the optimum system parameter

like sphericity and void fraction of packed bed under given operating conditions.

Rajeshwer Prasad SainiIndian Institute of Technology Roorkee

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• Twenty one years of international experience in the field of CSP technologies. This

experience covers a wide range of technical and professional skills, working from

R&D to demonstration and commercial power plants, as well as for the public and

private sectors.

• Has been R&D Director at Abengoa Solar New Technologies; Responsible of the

High Concentration Working Group at CIEMAT; Solar thermal expert at Solargen

Europe Ltd; Technical consultant for Energy for Sustainable Development Ltd.

• Author of numerous scientific publications, has participated in a large number of

national and international projects, expert groups, and committees, including the DG

TREN ­ Energy Research Evaluation 2010 and DG TREN ­ Energy Research Evalua­

tion 2008 for the European Commission. He is, also, author of six patents, five of

which are related to innovative solar energy concepts. Frequent reviewer of the “Jour­

nal of Solar Energy engineering”, “Applied Energy” and “Solar Energy”.

Abstract: “CSTP ­ The road towards grid parity”

This presentation analyzes possible approaches and schemes that could make it pos­

sible for CSTP technologies to reach their full potential. These approaches and sche­

mes are multidimensional, since they take into consideration technological,

economical, environmental, and sociological aspects.

Marcelino SánchezCENER

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• Twenty­five years of experience as a solar researcher and engineer, contributing to

advancing the state­of­the­art of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technologies. Ex­

pert on Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Computer Simulation of Energy Systems.

• Has been a Full Professor and Chair of the Engineering Department of the Univer­

sity of Texas at Brownsville; Director of the Plataforma Solar de Almeria of CIEMAT;

Principal Investigator of the European Union SOLGAS and SIREC Projects; Advisor to

the President of the Andalusia Energy Agency; and member of the International Test

and Evaluation Team in charge of the evaluation the IEA­SSPS Project.

• Author of numerous scientific publications, has participated in a large number of

national and international expert groups and committees, and has represented Spain

in various international scientific forums. Frequent reviewer of Solar Energy, the

official journal of the International Solar Energy Society.

Abstract: “CENER activities in support of the CSTP Industry”

This presentation provides an overview of CENER activities in support of the Con­

centrating Solar Thermal Power (CSTP) industry. These activities are many and va­

ried. They range from direct support to the implementation of many commercial CSTP

projects in Spain and elsewhere to the carrying out of R&D activities oriented towards

the development of new concepts of commercial CSTP plants and towards the deve­

lopment of a large array of new technologies to facilitate the operation of the plants,

reduce their levelized electricity costs, and improve their efficiencies.

Manuel BlancoCENER

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Prof. P. J. Paul is currently working as a professor at the Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore at the Department of Aerospace Engineering. He received the Doctorate

degree from the Indian Institute of Science had has worked at the Institute in va­

rious capacities since 1984. He has done extensive research in the areas of com­

bustion, aerospace propulsion, renewable energy, biomass combustion and

gasification. In the area of propulsion, he has worked on rocket engines, scramjets,

combustion instability in liquid rocket engines and gas turbine afterburners. He

has supervised about fifteen PhD and MSc students.

Renewable energy, particularly biomass gasification and combustion, has been one

of the areas where he has made significant contributions in the recent years. Seve­

ral developments in the laboratory have been successfully commercialized and have

been making contributions to the renewable energy programmes of India. His grou­

p’s contributions in the area of renewable energy have been recognized through

the awards received from FICCI and CII.

Professor Paul has about 70 journal and 60 conference publications.

Abstract: “Energy from Biomass”

Biomass is a stored form of solar energy and has potential to generate energy in a

carbon neutral manner if planned appropriately. India and most parts of the world

generates large amount of agricultural residues, which being wasted or used in a

very inefficient manner. In addition, there are marginal forests and degraded land,

which can be effectively utilized for generation of biomass. This talk will focus on

several aspects of biomass energy, including the biomass (agricultural residues)

availability in India and a biomass atlas developed at the Indian Institute of Science,

the biomass generation, biomass conversion technologies, possibilities of distribu­

ted power generation devices and fossil fuel replacement using biomass devices.

The presentation will also include case studies of some of the existing biomass

distributed power systems in India.

Palakat Joseph PaulIndian Institute of Science

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Margarita de Gregorio, Environmental Engineer, is the Director of the Thermoelectric Energies De­

partment (biomass, geothermal and concentrated solar) of the Spanish Renewable Energy Association

­APPA­.

APPA comprises more than five hundred companies operating in the renewable energy sector. Created

in 1987, it is the only national industry association in this field that covers all the renewables: Biofuels,

biomass, wind power, photovoltaic, high and low enthalpy geothermal, hydraulic, marine, and concen­

trated solar energy. APPA aims to help create the conditions for development of renewable sources of

energy, dialoguing with public and private entities (agencies, environmental organizations, trade

unions, etc.) on the various aspects involved in its activity. APPA also lobbies in Europe through to the

following European Associations: AEBIOM (European Biomass Association), EBB (European Biodiesel

Board), EREF (European Renewable Energies Federation), ESHA (European Small Hydropower Asso­

ciation), EUFORES (European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources), EU­OEA (European Ocean Energy

Association) and EWEA (European Wind Energy Association).

Margarita de Gregorio is responsible for both the Spanish Biomass Technology Platform ­BIOPLAT­ and

for the Spanish Geothermal Technology Platform ­GEOPLAT­, tools of the Spanish Ministry of Science

and Innovation. Furthermore, BIOPLAT belongs to the Steering Committee of the Biomass Panel of the

European Technology Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling, and actively participate in the wor­

kings groups of the European Biofuels Technology Platform. As well as GEOPLAT, that nowadays pre­

sides the Geothermal Panel of the European Technology Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling.

Apart from these professional activities, she is carrying out a PhD in the field of the economy of the

natural resources.

Abstract: “Spanish Biomass Overview”

The Spanish Biomass Technology Platform ­BIOPLAT­ is a scientific­technical sectorial excellence and

coordination group consisted of all relevant stakeholders in bioenergy sector in Spain and so, encom­

passing bioenergy in its broadest sense. Currently, BIOPLAT counts for 248 stakeholders: 136 Compa­

nies; 47 Technology Centers & Foundations; 16 Associations and Cooperatives; 29 Universities; 17

Public Entities; 3 Public Research Centers.

BIOPLAT aims to provide a framework within which, all sectors involved in the development of bio­

mass energy, led by industry, work together in a coordinated way to ensure the commercial settlement

of this renewable energy and its continuous growth, in a competitive and sustainable form.

To accomplish this goal it is necessary to develop a design of technological strategies for the settlement

of guidelines which boost the sustainable development of biomass sources in accordance with natio­

nal and European objectives.

The result of the work, effort and enthusiasm that has been carried out over the last four years by all

members of BIOPLAT is reflected in the documents developed within the Platform: Vision for 2030,

Strategic Research Lines and Energy from Algae: Present & Future.

The fundamental aim of the Vision for 2030 document is to summarize the situation of the Spanish

bioenergy sector in terms of objectives to be achieved in the energy scenarios 2020 and 2030. The Stra­

tegic Research Lines document describes the design of strategies for research, development and inno­

vation to promote technological evolution, thus becoming a highly competitive renewable sector of far

greater value. Energy from Algae is a roadmap for the new and incipient biomass­from­algae sector.

The Spanish Biomass Technology Platform is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Inno­

vation.

Margarita de GregorioBIOPLAT

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Mercedes Ballesteros Perdices has a PhD in biology and a Masters in biotechnology.

Since 1990 a senior scientist at CIEMAT, she has been the head of the Biomass Unit in

the Department of Renewable Energies since 2004.

Her main research areas are: production and characterization of lignocellulosic and

starch­containing biomass, biological processes for energy production from biomass

resources, ethanol and other high added value products production by acid and enzy­

matic hydrolysis, microorganism research for biofuel production, fermentative pro­

cesses, biomass pre­treatment processes and process development at pilot scale.

She has published more than 100 research articles on those topics in international

peer reviewed journals and has participated in some 30 research projects in the field.

One important part of her activity is outreach, through collaboration with many uni­

versities and other institutions to teach in specialized courses on renewable energies,

both at national and international levels, in LatinAmerica in particular.

She is a member of various committees and has participated in several fora on eva­

luation and/or foresight on energy research and technology. She also serves as a con­

sultant for various programs and agencies.

Abstract: “Spanish Biofuels Overview”

A brief overview of the current situation in the biofuel production and consumption

in Europe and Spanish will be performed. The new perspectives established by the

Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC of substituting at least 10% of the final con­

sumption of energy in transport in Europewill be analysed. European support for de­

veloping advanced biofuel technologies, which is expected to cover about 4% of EU

transportation needs by 2020 will be also analysed. Finally, research activities deve­

loped by CIEMAT in the area of ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass by biochemical

technologies will be presented.

Mercedes BallesterosCIEMAT

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Pedro Ollero (Seville, Spain, 1950) is a professor of Chemical Engineering at the

Chemical and Environmental Department of the University of Seville. Between 1997

and 2002 he was the head of this department and in the period 2002­2006 Vicedi­

rector of the Engineering School. He has been Director of the PhD program of the

Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department since 2005. In 1998 the Mi­

nistry of Science and Technology named him as Spanish representative on the

energy experts committee of the Fifth Framework Programme of the European

Commission (1998­2002).

In 1999 Professor Ollero founded the Bioenergy Group of the University of Seville

(BEGUS). This research group has been very active during the past decade in the

fields of biomass gasification and synthesis of second­generation biofuels from lig­

nocellulosic biomass. The group led by Prof. Ollero has participated in several Eu­

ropean Projects such as: Improvement of the economics of biomass/waste

gasification by higher carbon conversion and advanced ash management (GASASH

Project, 2002­2005), Renewable fuels for advanced power trains (RENEW Project,

2004­2008) and Phyllis Database Dissemination, Education and Standardisation

(PHYDADES Project 2007­2010). As a result of the research work done for these

projects as well as with other nationally funded projects, P. Ollero and his co­wor­

kers have published more than 40 scientific and technical papers in the most im­

portant journals and symposiums. In addition, the bioenergy group led by Prof.

Ollero collaborates with private companies as a consultant in the field of biomass

gasification technology.

Abstract: “Biomass thermochemical processing & Biofuels 2nd Generation”

The Bioenergy Group of the University of Sevilla (BEGUS) will present briefly its cu­

rrent activities in the fields of thermochemical conversion and 2nd generation

biofuels:

• Conceptual design and techno­economical assessment of BTL and BTG processes.

• Evaluation and optimization of synthesis catalysts for bio­ethanol production.

• Development of innovative gasification technology.

After this, the group will lead the technical visit to the Inerco gasification plant.

Pedro OlleroUniversidad de Sevilla

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Dr. Alberto Gómez­Barea is professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of

Seville where he lectures transport phenomena and modelling and simulation of

reacting systems. In addition he lectures on solid fuel gasification in a number of na­

tional and international universities or research centres such as Chalmers Univer­

sity of Technology (Sweden), Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands), VTT

(Finland), Kyushu University (Japan), Tsinghua University (China), Universidad Car­

los III Madrid (Spain) and Universidad Menéndez Pelayo Madrid (Spain). The areas

of research include fluid­dynamics and chemical conversion in fluidized bed. In the

last years his effort has been concentrated on the development of a technology for

the gasification of biomass and waste for electricity production. He belongs to the

Steering Committee of Fluidized Bed Combustion conference and has published

more than 50 international publications on these topics, participating in more than

10 contracts with private companies for specific developments and over 10 EU and

national public­founded R&D projects.

Abstract: “R&D on Biomass and Biofuels at the University of Seville”

In this communication Prof. Gómez­Barea described the experience accumulated by

BEGUS over the last decade on biomass gasification. Firstly, he presented the main

rigs at lab and pilot scale at the Campus of the University of Seville and summari­

zed the models developed to understand and scale­up the process to industrial ap­

plication. Secondly, Prof. Gómez­Barea pointed out the activities of BEGUS to

develop commercial units such as (I) demonstration units for FBG process with air,

CO2/O2 and steam/O2 with reference plants constructed, respectively, in Seville,

León and Navarra, (II) a gas cleaning system based on wet scrubbing with organic

solvent (with a reference plant in Seville), (III) an innovative gasification process

where the char and tar is converted inside the reactor (FLETGAS) based on an in­

novative design in three stages. Finally, Prof. Gómez­Barea described the national

and EU R&D activities and projects of BEGUS and the cooperation with private com­

panies for the development and commercialization of biomass/waste gasification

systems for distributed power generation.

Alberto Gómez BareaUniversidad de Sevilla

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INFORMATION ON THETECHNICAL INSTALLATIONS

PLATAFORMA SOLAR-CIEMAT - PSA

The Plataforma Solar de Almeria, which belongs to the Centro de InvestigacionesEnergéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), is the largest Europeancenter for research, development and testing of concentrating solar technologies.

PSA activities are integrated as a Division of R&D within the structure of theCIEMAT’s Department of Energy.

The objectives that inspire its research activity are the following:

• Contribute to the establishment of a sustainable, clean, world energy supply.

• Contribute to conservation of European energy resources, climate and environment.

• Promote market introduction of solar thermal technologies and derived solarchemical processes.

• Contribute to development of a competitive European solar thermal export industry.

• Reinforce cooperation between the business sector and scientific institutions in thefield of research, development, demonstration and marketing of the solar thermaltechnologies.

• Boost cost-reducing technological innovation, thus contributing to increased marketacceptance of the solar thermal technologies.

• Promote North-South technological cooperation, especially in the MediterraneanArea.

• Assist industry in identifying market opportunities related to the solar thermaltechnologies.

Further information:

http://www.psa.es/webesp/index.php

INERCO - BIOMASS & WASTE GASIFICATION PLANT

INERCO’s biomass gasification plant, located in Alcala de Guadaira (Seville province),is a flagship project that embodies the company's commitment to renewable energy.The Bioenergy Group at the University of Seville helped to develop the plant’stechnology.

The plant developed by INERCO converts biomass into fuel gas, which is easier andcleaner burning. This development enables the efficient use of biomass as fuel in boi-lers and industrial furnaces, and the use of gasifiers in combustion engines for dis-tributed electric power production. INERCO is also working on using other fuels forenergy production, such as the organic part of municipal solid waste.

http://www.inerco.com/en

ABENGOA SOLAR INSTALLATIONS PS10 AND PS20

PS10: The first commercial tower of the world

Location: Sanlúcar la Mayor, Sevilla.

Type of Project: 11 MW power tower plant.

The PS10 tower installation is the result of several years of research and develop-ment conducted by Abengoa Solar. It is the first solar power tower in the world tocommercially generate electricity and deliver it reliably to the grid.

The PS10 solar plant incorporates thermal storage that allows full production for 30minutes, even after the sun goes down. Thermal storage can boost power productionunder low radiation conditions. The PS10 generates enough enough to supply 5,500households.

PS10 uses the steam produced by the solar field to operate a conventional powercycle. The installed capacity of the system is 11 MW.

The PS10 solar field is composed of 624 Sanlúcar 120 heliostats. Each heliostat is1291 ft2 (120 m2), which means the entire heliostat field is has an area of 75,000 m2.Each heliostat tracks the sun on two axes and concentrates the radiation onto a re-ceiver located on the upper part of the 377 ft (115 m) tower. The receiver converts92% of received sunlight into steam.

The PS10 receiver was designed by Abengoa Solar NT for the direct generation ofsaturated steam. The receiver is composed of four vertical panels that are each 18 ft(5.5 m) wide and 39 ft (12 m) tall. The panels are arranged in a semicylindrical con-figuration inside a cavity with an opening of 11m x 11m (36 ft x 36 ft). At design con-ditions, the receiver delivers 55 MWth of saturated steam at 495 ºF (257 ºC). Theefficiency of conversion of incident sunlight into steam is better than 92%.

PS20: The world's second power tower plant in commercial use

PS20 features a number of significant technological improvements with respect toPS10, the first commercial power tower. These enhancements, developed by Aben-goa Solar, include a higher-efficiency receiver, various improvements in the controland operational systems, and a better thermal energy storage system.

With a power capacity of 20 megawatts, double that of PS10, the new PS20 solarpower plant will produce enough clean energy to supply 10,000 homes, and willavoid the emission of approximately 12,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere that aconventional power plant would have produced.

PS20 consists of a solar field made up of 1,255 mirrored heliostats designed byAbengoa Solar. Each heliostat, with a surface area of 1,291 square feet, reflects thesolar radiation it receives onto the receiver, located on the top of a 531 feet-hightower , producing steam which is converted into electricity generation by a turbine.

Further information:

http://www.abengoasolar.com/corp/web/en/our_projects/solu-car/index.html

INFORMATION ON THETECHNICAL INSTALLATIONS

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Barqueta Bridge, Seville

MICINNwww.micinn.es

INERCO

ww.inerco.es

DST

www.dst.gov.in

Ciemat PSA

www.psa.es

Universidad de Zaragoza

www.unizar.es

Universidad de Sevilla

www.us.es

ABENGOA

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