KTH Royal Institute of Technology is one of Europe's top technical universities, having a robust history of collaborating with industry and research institutions. Within KTH, the Energy Technology department carries out research in several areas, including poly-generation, energy systems analysis, and concentrating solar power, with a particular emphasis on energy storage, heat pumps, and solar energy component development. KTH possesses extensive expertise in techno-economic analysis and component modelling, utilizing in-house techno-economic tools. Additionally, KTH has established facilities, including the high flux solar simulator and high-temperature TES rig, which allow for the experimentation and evaluation of various high-temperature solar-driven components. Main Role: KTH Royal Institute of Technology is the coordinator of the SHARP-sCO2 project. Within this role, KTH is actively engaged in multiple areas, including conceptualizing, optimizing, and laboratory testing of the Thermal Energy Storage (TES) system, along with the testing of the electric heater. KTH also contributes to defining the project's layout and key performance indicators (KPIs), leading the techno-economic modeling task, and interfacing with dynamic models and LCA tasks. Moreover, KTH performs techno-economic feasibility and replication studies.
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The IMDEA Energy Institute (IME) is a research centre created by the Regional Government of Comunidad de Madrid in 2006 that operates as a non-profit foundation. It aims at contributing to the future establishment of a sustainable and decarbonised energy system, economically competitive and securing energy supply. The R&D Unit of High-Temperature Processes (HTPU) of IME focuses its activities on efficient and dispatchable solar concentrating technologies for power generation, industrial process heat and production of solar fuels and chemicals. In Sharp-SCO2, HTPU-IME leads the on-sun experimental characterization of the novel air receiver concept at 50 kWth scale and coordinates the development of component dynamic models and optimized system control strategies for the SHARP-SCO2 CSP plant.
The Thermal Power Machinery and Plants group (TEA) at the Institute of Power Engineering of the TU Dresden deals with integration of turbomachinery into processes of thermal energy technology as well as experimental and theoretical work on innovative working fluids and in the field of thermomechanics. The role of TEA in SHARP-sCO2 is the development and experimental testing of an innovative air-sCO2 heat exchanger.
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CERTH/CPERI is a non-profit research and technological development (RTD) organization, founded in 1985 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Due to its experience in CFD and LCA/LCC activities, CERTH/CPERI will be involved in the relevant tasks of the project, and more specifically the optimization of the design configuration of the packed bed thermal energy storage (TES) unit by using CFD simulations and the environmental and social assessment of the proposed solution in life cycle analysis terms.
The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy manages the development of integrated projects aimed at creating an additional 6,000 MW clean electricity by 2030 and secure 52% of the country’s energy mix from renewable sources. Masen’s main role in Sharp-SCO2 is to bring its expertise in the selection and qualification of storage materials used in the thermal energy storage system. MASEN will enlarge knowledge to scale up and replicate sCO2 plants and hybrid PV+CSP TES Solutions in other CSP plants also starting to promote Morocco’s role of Southern EU grid flexibility facilitator.
The University of Genoa (UNIGE) is an education and research institution, in which academics, students and administrative and technical staff participate in the exercise of the respective competences, functions and responsibilities. The University was founded in 1933 by means of Regio Decreto n. 1592 but its history can be traced back several centuries (XV century). UNIGE is a public institution provided with scientific, educational, organizational and financial autonomy and it is involved in the building of a European area for research and advanced professional training.
The Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering – DIME of the University of Genoa includes the “Thermochemical Power Group” TPG (www.tpg.unige.it), founded in 1998. Its mission is to carry out theoretical and experimental research in the field of advanced energy systems.
The TPG has twenty-year experience in participating and coordinating National and International Projects and is also active in Cooperative Actions by Research and Education, making available the professional skills and the scientific knowledge acquired in the more than twenty years of experience by our group in research projects in developing Countries, according to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for 2030. In particular,
In SHARP-sCO2 Project UNIGE is valorising its know-how about sCO2 energy systems and their modelling (particularly at dynamic and thermo-economic level) to support the assessment of replicability of the SHARP-sCO2 investigated air-driven integrated sCO2-CSP cycles
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The governing body of the University of Oxford, located in Oxford, England, is known as "The Chancellor, Masters and scholars of the University of Oxford". It manages the university's academic programs, research initiatives, and financial management. With a history dating back to the 11th century, the University of Oxford is a prestigious institution known for academic excellence, offering undergraduate and graduate programs in various fields of study."
