ENEA Portici labs

Technical Unit

Portici Technologies Research activities

Ezio Terzini - Director of Portici Technologies Technical Unit

Portici Research Centre

ENEA Portici labs

Where we are

Zooming in Portici Reseach Centre

• 4 buildings

• 3.700 m2 laboratories

• 400 m2 clean rooms

• 135 employees (80 researchers , 35 techincians, 20 admin.)

• (+ 25 non permanent)

Portici Research Centre

Opening Year : 1989

Portici Technologies Technical Unit (UTTP)

UTTP Director (Dr. Ezio Terzini)

UTTP-MDB Basic materials and devices lab.

UTTP-NANO Nanotech and

organic lab.

UTTP-FOTO Photovoltaic systems lab.

UTTP-FOS Special optical coatings lab.

UTTP-CHIA Environment

chemestry lab.

Coordination board: •International (Dr. Franco Roca)

•Base science & Industrial (Dr. Girolamo Di Francia)

Resp. Dr. Paola Delli Veneri Solar cells and sensors

Resp. Ing. C.arla Minarini OTFT, OPV, OLED

Resp. Ing. Giorgio Graditi CPV, CSP, BIPV, Smart grid, Tests and qualification

Resp. Ing. Alessandro Antonaia Spectral filters, TCOs, ARC

Resp. Dr. Antonio Salluzzo Waters, soil, exhaust

UTTP Research Organisation

Reseach personnel distribution :

Employees

(Permanent)

Activity

60% Solar energy

26% Non solar nanotech.

14% Environment

Portici Technologies Technical Unit (UTTP)

# 1) Fabrication technologies

Thin film silicon material and devices

Organic materials and devices

Innovative inorganic absorber

Optical coatings and selective filters Graphene based devices

Activities in solar Technologies

Activities in solar Technologies

# 2) Special coatings

High temperature selective filters

TCOs Transparent Conductive Oxides

# 3) Solar Systems technologies

Concentrated PV, hybrid PV-T, CSP Smart PV and Building integration

On-grid and off-grid PV plant operations

Distributed generation and smart grid

Activities in solar Technologies

# 4) Advanced services for industries

Modules qualification tests

BOS components tests

Solar plants performances measurements

Installation sites characterization

Product LCA and PV recycling

Activities in solar Technologies

PV modules’ test and qualification

• Dark and light I-V • Complex Impedance • Capacity vs frequency • Capacity vs voltage • Electrical insulation • Infrared thermic analysis • Optical transmittance

Accelerated tests: • Salt spray corrosion • Thermal cycles • Humidity and freeze • Damp heat • UV exposure

CEI-EN 61215 e CEI EN 61646 standards

Research and Service for: Producers, installers, retailers.

Activities in solar Technologies

Technical Highlights: c-Si solar cells

c-Si solar cell for CPV = 22.0% at 80X 20.5% at 100X 20% at 200X (cell area 1.21 cm2)

Results in solar Technologies

Technical Highlights : Thin film solar cell

Micromorph tandem solar cell a-Si/mc-Si = 11.3% (10% stable) a-Si tandem module 30 x 30 cm2 = 9.1% (7% stable)

Results in solar Technologies

IV light AM1.5G 1000W/m2 Area= 0.34 cm2

Eff= 6,32 % FF= 63,1 % Jsc= 14.1 mA/cm2 Voc= 711 mV Ohm*cm2

Results in solar Technologies

Technical Highlights : Organic solar cell

Device structure: GLASS ITO PEDOT:PSS PBDTTT-C:PCBM Ca Al

Low bandgap copolymer benzodithiophene-thienothiophene

Results in solar Technologies

Technical Highlights : thin film coatings

Large Area 30 x 30 cm2 MOCVD deposited ZnO:B film High transmittance, high conductivity, substitute for tin oxide Patent: Large area deposition system Low cost, high growth rate, optimum texturing

Selective solar coating for high temperature application Application to parabolic trough CSP. Operation Temp. = 550 °C

>94% < 0,14 at 550 °C

2 patents

Technical Highlights : Concentrated PV

Low cost concentrated PV module Plastic housing, acrilic lens, 24 cells

= 18.7% with c-Si at 200X (optical active area)

= 26.7% with MJ III-V cells at 250X (optical active area)

2 patents for prismatic and hybrid lens Printed PMMA , suitable for 200X, high optical efficiency

Standard unit PhoCUS - 5 kWp 2 axis heliostat (accuracy ±0.2°), 35 m2 , 51 modules

Results in solar Technologies

Technical Highlights : PV components

• Patent PV street lamp “Stapelia”

• Patent design module for BIPV “Boogie-Woogie” • Patent antitheft system for PV modules “PV-Guardian”

Brodway boogie-woogie

Results in solar Technologies

NON solar activities Organic material based technologies

Development of devices fabrication process:

OLEDs

Organic TFTs

Study and application of new process technologies:

Ink-jet printing

Hot embossing

NON solar activities: Chemical sensors tech. and sensor network

Sensors based on:

Nanostructured sensors (Pd, CNT nanowires, Porous silicon)

Polymer sensors

Graphene based sensors

Electronic noses

Sensors array, WSN ICARO electronic nose

@lisee system

Environment laboratories

•Chemical analysis •Ecotoxicology - nanotoxicology •Complex systems modelling (sea, coast evolution, climate changes)

•Conservation of sea environment and related archeological heritage •Mobile lab. for “in field” activity

NON solar activities: environmental chemistry

Energy and matter recovery from waste

Pyrolysis process

Low cost carbon from tyre waste

NON solar activities: Solid and liquid waste cycle

Industry and urban wastewater treatment and re-use

Revamping of Nola Area Wastewater Treatment Plant

FP7 running projects PV-CONSTRUCT (ED. ZÜBLIN AG, D'APPOLONIA, FRAUNHOFER,…..)

NANOREG (JRC,CNRS,AIT,IOM,ministeri amb,…..)

ECOSOLE (BECAR-BEGHELLI, UPM, TECNALIA,……)

BFIRST (TECNALIA, ACCIONA, CRES,……)

FAST-TRACK (Julich, EPFL, ECN, Delft, CNRS, Orleikon….)

SOPHIA (CEA-INES, ISE-IWES, ECN, IMEC, HZB,……)

TDK4PE (U.A.Barcelona, Flexink, Infiniscale, Phoenix BV, Univ. Algarve,…..)

NGCPV (FH-ISE, UPM, Imp. College, Uni.Tokyo, Kobe, Sharp, Ashai…)

ENCOMB (Fraunhofer, Airbus,UoP,RCNDT, CNRS, European AD & SC,…..)

Activities Value for ENEA: 4.6 Ml € (grant 3.3 Ml)

UTTP active projects

17 running Projects under national funds

(PON, AdP Mise, MATTM)

3 Project under Regional funds

(POR)

Activities Value for ENEA: 18.0 Ml (grant 14,3 Ml€)

UTTP active projects

Ownership of 2 Public-Private laboratories

ELIOSLAB TRIPODE (Concentrated solar power) (Polymers in electronics)

Elioslab solar furnace

120 sqm flat heliostat

80 sqm primary concentrator with 120 spherical mirror

30 kWp receiver Heat transfer to CO2 flux at about 850°C

Research site for application in: Electrical energy production Chemical process for hydrogen production High temperature test of materials and components

UTTP active projects

TRIPODE funded again:

SMARTAGS (RFID, OTFT, printing tech., roll to roll,….)

RELIGHT (OLED & OPV)

ENEA Coordinator

Total projects value: 13,4 Ml €

ENEA grant: 6,7 Ml€

UTTP active projects

Coming soon Regione Campania Districts: • Energy • Aerospace • Sustenaible Building

2 new public-private aggregations 3 UE projects (CHEETA,ELECTRA, DC4CITY)

UTTP active projects

Thanks for your attention

Portici Technologies Technical Unit