April 23–25, 2013

The SunShot Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Program Review 2013 served as a forum for awardees to exchange ideas with others in the CSP research and development portfolio. The event fostered collaborative and synergistic opportunities for awardees while engaging external stakeholders including industry, utilities, regulatory agencies, financiers, and other federal agencies in the emerging CSP technologies supported by the SunShot Initiative.

The review meeting featured technical presentations from each awardee, keynote addresses on emerging trends and opportunities, and a half-day tour of the Solana Generating Station—a 280-megawatt (MW) utility-scale concentrating solar power plant with thermal energy storage built by Abengoa Solar. Solana is one of the largest solar power plants in the world and employs the largest thermal energy storage system ever constructed.

Below are the available presentations.

Plenary Presentations

• SunShot Concentrating Solar Power Program Update, Ranga Pitchumani, U.S. Department of Energy
• Quantifying the Value of CSP with Thermal Energy Storage, Paul Denholm, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• eSolar's Modular and Scalable Baseload Molten Salt Plant Design and Feasibility Project, Craig Tyner, eSolar
• Financing CSP Projects in Emerging Markets: A Perspective from the World Bank Group, Dana Younger, International Finance Corporation
• Polymeric Mirror Films: Durability Improvement and Implementation in New Collector Designs, Daniel Chen, 3M Company
• Integrating CSP with TES into a Utility System, Brad Albert, Arizona Public Service
• A New Generation of Parabolic Trough Technology, Henry Price, Abengoa Solar

Technical Presentations

CSP Systems

• Development of Molten-Salt Heat Transfer Fluid Technology for Parabolic Trough Solar Power Plants, Dylan Grogan, Abengoa Solar
• Development of an Advanced, Low-Cost Parabolic Trough Collector for Baseload Operation, Graeme Hoste, SkyFuel
• Advanced Baseload Molten Salt Tower, Drake Tilley, Abengoa Solar
• Advanced Ceramic Materials and Packaging Technologies for Realizing Sensors for Concentrating Solar Power Systems, Yiping Liu, Sporian Microsystems

Power Cycles

• Integrated Solar Thermochemical Reaction System for High Efficiency Production of Electricity, Robert Wegeng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Optimizing the CSP Tower Air Brayton Cycle System to Meet the SunShot Objectives, Shane Coogan, Southwest Research Institute
• Novel Dry Cooling Technology for Power Plants, Christopher Martin, University of North Dakota
• 10 MW Supercritical CO2 Turbine Project, Craig Turchi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Development of a High Efficiency Hot Gas Turbo-expander and Low Cost Heat Exchangers for Optimized CSP Supercritical CO2 Operation, Jeffrey Moore, Southwest Research Institute
• Nx-TEC: Next-Generation Thermionic Solar Energy Conversion, Nicholas Melosh, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
• Concentrated Solar Thermoelectric Power, Gang Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Solar Thermo-Electric Generator, David Ginley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Solar Collectors

• Flexible Assembly Solar Technology, Elad Toister, BrightSource Energy
• Deploying Low-Cost Suspension Heliostats, William Bender, Solaflect Energy
• Advanced Reflective Films and Panels for Next Generation Solar Collectors, Attila Molnar, 3M Company
• Low-Cost Light Weight Thin Film Solar Concentrators, Gani Ganapathi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Advanced Manufacture of Second-Surface, Silvered Glass Reflectors for High-Performance, Low-Cost CSP Collector Systems, Roger Angel, University of Arizona
• Development of a Low-Cost Ultra Specular Advanced Polymer Film Solar Reflector, Gary Jorgensen, SkyFuel
• Microtracking and Self-Adaptive Solar Concentration, Chris Giebink, Pennsylvania State University
• Planar Optical Waveguide Coupler Transformers for High-Power Solar Energy Collection and Transmission, Nobuhiko Kobayashi, University of California Santa Cruz
• Low-Cost Self-Cleaning Coatings for CSP Collectors, Scott Hunter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Prototype Development for Self-Cleaning CSP Collectors, Malay Mazumder, Boston University
• Low-Cost Heliostat for Modular Systems, Charles Kutscher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Low-Cost Heliostat Development, Stephen Kusek, HiTek Services
• Fluidic Solar Collectors: New Materials and Mechanisms for Heliostats, Leila Madrone, Otherlab

Thermal Receivers

• High-Efficiency Low-Cost Solar Receiver for Use in a Supercritical CO₂ Recompression Cycle, Shaun Sullivan, Brayton Energy
• Direct s-CO₂ Receiver Development, Michael Wagner, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• High Flux Microchannel Solar Receiver Development with Adaptive Flow Control, Kevin Drost, Oregon State University
• Advanced Low-Cost Receivers for Parabolic Troughs, Joel Stettenheim, Norwich Technologies
• Developing the Small Particle Heat Exchange Receiver for a Prototype Test, Fletcher Miller, San Diego State University
• Brayton Cycle Baseload Power Tower CSP System, Bruce Anderson, Wilson Solarpower
• High Performance Nanostructured Spectrally Selective Coating, Sungho Jin, University of California San Diego
• High-Temperature Solar Selective Coating Development for Power Tower Receivers, Andrea Ambrosini, Sandia National Laboratories
• High Temperature Falling Particle Receiver, Clifford Ho, Sandia National Laboratories
• Near-Blackbody Enclosed Particle Receiver, Zhiwen Ma, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Using Solid Particles as Heat Transfer Fluid for Use in Concentrating Solar Power Plants, Zhiwen Ma, University of Colorado Boulder
• Phase Change Material Tower, Luke Erickson, Abengoa Solar

Thermal Storage and Heat Transfer Fluids

• Sulfur Based Thermochemical Energy Storage for Solar Power Tower, Bunsen Wong, General Atomics
• Chemically Reactive Working Fluids for the Capture and Transport of Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy for Power Generation, Richard Brotzman, Argonne National Laboratory
• Low-Cost MHTES Systems for CSP, Ted Motyka, Savannah River National Laboratory
• Reversible Metal Hydride Thermal Energy Storage for High Temperature Power Generation Systems, Ewa Ronnebro, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Using Encapsulated Phase Change Material for Thermal Energy Storage for Baseload CSP, Anoop Mathur, Terrafore
• Development of Low-Cost Industrially Scalable PCM Capsules for Thermal Energy Storage in CSP Plants, Yogi Goswami, University of South Florida
• High Efficiency Thermal Energy Storage System for CSP, Dileep Singh, Argonne National Laboratory
• Metallic Composites Phase-Change Materials for High-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage, Gang Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Novel Molten Salts Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating Solar Power Generation, Ramana Reddy, University of Alabama
• Halide and Oxy-halide Eutectic Systems for High Performance High Temperature Heat Transfer Fluids, Peiwen Li, University of Arizona
• Corrosion in Very High-Temperature Molten Salt for Next Generation CSP Systems, Brenda Garcia-Diaz, Savannah River National Laboratory
• Degradation Mechanisms and Development of Protective Coatings for TES and HTF Containment Materials, Judith Gomez, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• High Temperature Thermal Array for Next Generation Solar Thermal Power Production, Stephen Obrey, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Dish Stirling High Performance Thermal Storage, Charles Andraka, Sandia National Laboratories
• Innovative Application of Maintenance-Free Phase-Change Thermal Energy Storage for Dish Engine Solar Power Generation, Maury White, Infinia Corp.
• Innovative Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage Solution for Baseload Power, Maury White, Infinia Corp.
• High Density Thermal Energy Storage with Supercritical Fluids (SuperTES), Gani Ganapathi, University of California Los Angeles
• Advanced Glass Materials for Thermal Energy Storage, Tim Dyer, Halotechnics
• High Efficiency Solar Fuels Reactor Concept, Asegun Henry, Georgia Institute of Technology
• High-Operating Temperature Heat Transfer Fluids for CSP Applications, Sungtaek Ju, University of California Los Angeles