Blog #21 – Water analysis and treatment for water savings in CSP
In this blog, the MinWaterCSP project partners Fraunhofer ISE (Germany) and Waterleau (Belgium) will give some insights into their work in the project to achieve water savings in CSP and answer two questions: How to develop treatment strategies in Belgium and Germany...
Blog #20 – MinWaterCSP is making good progress in reducing water consumption in CSP plants
MinWaterCSP aims to reduce the annual water consumption of a CSP plant through a number of complementary measures while maintaining or even improving thermal efficiency and reducing capital costs. This is done through a holistic combination of next generation...
Blog #19 – Studying the Fouling effect on the test demo at Green Energy Park, Benguerir, Morocco under MinWaterCSP project
Technology background The accumulation of unwanted deposits on the surfaces of heat exchangers is usually referred to as fouling. The presence of these deposits represents a resistance to the transfer of heat and therefore reduces the efficiency of the entire heat...
Blog #18 – Making energy cheaper – euronews article and video about MinWaterCSP solutions
Euronews’ Denis Loctier visited their concentrated solar power (CSP) plant, where he spoke to the coordinator of the EU-funded project, MinWaterCSP, Falk Mohasseb (Kelvion Holding). On 18th September, the team of Euronews TV visited IRESEN’s Green Energy Park to...
Blog #17 – Joint activities of Low Energy Carbon Projects funded under Horizon 2020
Joint Activities of CSP projects under Horizon 2020 Call “Low Carbon Energy – CSP” The European Union is funding several approaches to minimize water consumption in CSP plants and to make CSP technology more efficient. A group of Horizon projects agreed to...Recent Posts
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Blog #33– ENEXIO presents innovative MinWaterCSP hybrid cooling technology at the Power-Gen International 2018 and launches new cooling system App
Blog #32 – 2nd International MinWaterCSP Conference in Stellenbosch offered technical solutions to tackle challenges in CSP plants
Blog #31 – HELIOS & CURVE! The new cleaning solutions by ECILIMP for Heliostats and Parabolic Trough
Blog #30 – Simulation software ColSimCSP: a tool to optimise CSP plant operation