ASTERIx-CAESar

📢 ASTERIx-CAESar project as a #MediaSponsor of #IGTC2025 🌟 The upcoming International #GasTurbines Conference organised by our communication & dissemination partner ETN Global will give visibility to our project at the conference #expo 🪧 📅 14-15 October 2025 📌 Brussels, BE (Tangla hotel) ℹ️ More info and registrations via the link in the comments #HorizonEU #EnergyEfficiency #EnergyTransition #CSP #SolarThermal #EnergyStorage #CAES

📣 Our project will be in the spotlight in #ECerS - the #conference of the EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 🔦 Our very own Alexander Füssel of Fraunhofer IKTS will give a lecture: 📖 #CellularAbsorber structures for open-volumetric #AirReceiver in #ConcentratedSolar power plants 📅 Thursday 4 September 2025, 11h00 - 11h20 ✍️ Co-authored with Antonio Avila-Marin (Plataforma Solar de Almería - CIEMAT) and Fritz Zaversky (Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables - National Renewable Energy Centre) He will emphasise the key characteristics of an open-celled #absorber structure: ➡️ high thermal #conductivity, ➡️ high thermomechanical and chemical stability, ➡️ low #PressureDrop, and ➡️ high durability 💪 Read the lecture abstract and learn more about the conference via the link 🔗 in the comments 👇 #HorizonEU #SolarThermal #EnergyStorage #CAES #EnergyEfficiency #EnergyTransition

✨ Our amazing consortium published another paper on #OpticalFibers ➰ Manuel Jerez and Alejandro Carballar (both Universidad de Sevilla) & Ricardo Conceição, PhD and Jose Gonzalez-Aguilar (both IMDEA Energy) recently published a paper in the #Sensors Journal by MDPI 📗 ➡️ ❝Optical Fiber Performance for High #SolarFlux Measurements in #ConcentratingSolarPower Applications❞ ⬅️ Their work presents a #ProofOfConcept for high solar flux #measurement by using optical fibers and showcases their behaviour and #damage under challenging conditions ☀️🌡️♨️ Find the complete paper via the link 🔗 in the comments 👇 #HorizonEU #CSP #SolarThermal #EnergyStorage #CAES #EnergyEfficiency #EnergyTransition

📣 Proceedings from the Optica #SensingCongress are out 📚 ASTERIx-CAESar's partners from Universidad de Sevilla and IMDEA Energy were there with two presentations 🎤🎤 and one poster 🖼️, all presented by Manuel Jerez 👏 The link 🔗 in the comments 👇 takes you to all 3️⃣ publications: 🎤 Evaluating #FiberBragg Grating Technologies for #HighTemperature Sensing in #ConcentratedSolarPower Plants 🎤 Damage in #Optical Fiber-based Sensors in Extreme Environments For #HighFlux #Solar Measurements 🖼️ Concentrated #SolarFlux Measurement in a High Flux #SolarSimulator Using an Optical Fiber-Based #Radiometer 🏅 Kudos also to Joaquin Granado Romero, Alejandro Carballar (both Universidad de Sevilla), Ricardo Conceição, and Jose Gonzalez-Aguilar (both IMDEA Energy) for co-authoring 💪 #HorizonEU #sensors #ConcentratedSolarPower #CSP #SolarThermal #EnergyStorage #CAES #EnergyEfficiency #EnergyTransition

😉 Have you ever seen a feasibility test of upscaling #AbsorberFoam sizes? Based on an improved design 📝 by Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables - National Renewable Energy Centre, the next generation of #SiliconCarbide solar absorber foams is being developed at Fraunhofer IKTS 💪 🎯 The aim is to produce larger foam structures with reduced manufacturing efforts ⚙️ Walter Pritzkow developed special oxide/ #OxideCeramic matrix composite cups to fix these absorber foams ✅ The combination of cups and foams will shortly be tested at the IMDEA Energy tower Watch the video 🎥 to see what the foam preparation and the cup look like 👇 #HorizonEU #EnergyTransition #EnergyEfficiency #SolarThermal #CSP #ConcentratedSolarPower #EnergyStorage #CAES Video courtesy of Alexander Füssel (Fraunhofer IKTS) 👏

💡 Publications on our project's three #posters presented at the #OPTOEL2025 conference are now available ➡️ 📌 Evaluation of FBGs as high-temperature #sensors in #ConcentratedSolarPower applications 📌 Using #Semiconductor #Photodiodes as Detector Element for Solar Radiation Measurements 📌 Concentrated #SolarFlux measurement in a #SolarSimulator, based on #OpticalFiber and #photodiode Check out the detailed publications describing these three posters (attached 👇) via the link 🔗 in the comments. Kudos to all the authors for their outstanding work 👏 Manuel Jerez, Alejandro Carballar, Joaquin Granado Romero (all Universidad de Sevilla) & Ricardo Conceição, PhD, Jose Gonzalez-Aguilar (both IMDEA Energy) & Xabier Rández Diago, PhD, Olaia Itoiz (both Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables - National Renewable Energy Centre) #HorizonEU #CSP #EnergyStorage #CAES #SolarThermal #EnergyEfficiency #EnergyTransition

🔥 Hot off the press - our project publishes another paper on integration of #CAES with #CSP 🔥 Our newest paper, published at the #Journal of #EnergyStorage, entitled 📝 "Modeling of an innovative integration of #CompressedAirEnergyStorage (CAES) with high-temperature #ConcentratedSolarPower (CSP): A comprehensive use-case study" ☀️ focuses on the following aspects: 📌 Simulate the 24-hour operation, focusing on the design and #OffDesign performance of key components 📌 Improve overall efficiency by coupling the plant with an #OrganicRankineCycle (ORC) bottoming cycle and #WasteHeatRecovery for industrial applications 📌 Present key findings, including #RoundTripEfficiency of more than 43% #Kudos to all the authors👏: Javier Baigorri Martínez, Fritz Zaversky (both Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables - National Renewable Energy Centre), Alessandro Federici, coriolano salvini (both Università degli studi Roma TRE), Tereza Kubíková (Doosan Škoda Power), Theunis du Toit (SoftInWay Inc.), Pablo Enrique Rodríguez de Arriba, David Sánchez Martínez (both Universidad de Sevilla) Find the complete paper via the link 🔗 in the comments 👇 #HorizonEU #EnergyEfficiency #EnergyTransition #SolarPower #SolarThermal

🚀 Our project was showcased during a short course given by our partner, Antonio Avila-Marin, from Plataforma Solar de Almería - CIEMAT 🚀 The course was part of his work as a #VisitingProfessor at Politecnico di Torino and covered the following topics: ☀️ #ConcentratedSolar receiver technologies and heat transfer fluid ☀️ #VolumetricReceivers: State of the art, fundamentals, implementation and simulation ☀️ From #Lab to the Field: Concentrated Solar Facilities at PSA Refer to the link in the comments for more ℹ️ on the course 🔗 #HorizonEU #CSP #EnergyStorage #CAES #EnergyEfficiency #EnergyTransition

🥳 We celebrate today the #BelgianNationalDay 🥳 Inspired by the #Atomium, an emblem of scientific curiosity, we aim to build a future rooted in #collaboration and #innovation 💡 Bonne fête nationale - Gelukkige nationale feestdag - Schönen Nationalfeiertag, dear partner ETN Global 🖤💛❤️ #HorizonEU #Celebrations2025 #CSP #EnergyStorage #CAES #EnergyTransiton #EnergyEfficiency

⌛ The 2025 edition of ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) #TurboExpo is over, but we still have something to share ⬇️ 🎤 Pablo Enrique Rodríguez de Arriba presented at this event his poster "Fundamental #Thermodynamic Insights on #CompressorTrain Design for Indirect-Heated #Solar D-CAES" 🖼️ It is co-authored by his colleagues from Universidad de Sevilla: Dolores Quirós-Gotarredona, Francesco Crespi, and David Sánchez Martínez 👏 and identifies key design trade-offs and performance drivers of our #CAES system ⚖️ See the whole #poster below 👇 and more ℹ️ on the session via the link in the comments 🔗 #HorizonEU #CSP #SolarThermal #EnergyStorage #CompressedAir #EnergyTransition #EnergyEfficiency