On February 15, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) hosted a virtual workshop focused on solar receivers and reactors for concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) and solar-thermal decarbonization.
As the U.S. power sector evolves, and as industrial decarbonization becomes more urgent, there is a need for further innovation and development of receivers and reactors in support of solar-thermal energy for power and industrial heat applications. DOE and its partners have worked together to reach important milestones in the advancement of this technology.
Speakers from industry, national labs, and universities discussed the next steps in research and development of solar receivers and reactors.
Agenda
Time (ET) | Session | Speakers/Presentations |
12:00 p.m. | Welcome and Introduction | Matt Bauer, SETO/CSP Solar Receivers and Virtual Reactors |
12:15 p.m. | Gen3 CSP Particle Systems | Jeremy Sment, Sandia National Laboratories/Gen3 Particle Pilot Plant Update Bill Hamilton, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)/Optical Characterization of a Falling Particle Snout Receiver Matt Carlson and Andrew Oles, Heliogen/Capella TESTBED Project and Centrifugal Receiver Development |
1:15 p.m. | Break | |
1:30 p.m. | Panel: Commercial Receiver Development | Bruce Kelly, Solar Dynamics/Nitrate Salt Receivers Hank Price, Solar Dynamics/Parabolic Trough Receiver Technology Joe Coventry, Australian National University with Vast Solar/Sodium Receivers |
2:40 p.m. | Panel: Innovative Receiver concepts | Reiner Buck, German Aerospace Center/Development of Centrifugal Particle Receivers Gianluca Ambrosetti, Synhelion/Absorbing Gas Receiver
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3:40 p.m. | Panel: Innovative Receiver Concepts | Reza Sarrafi-nour, General Electric Research/Additively Manufactured SiC Receiver Design Zhiwen Ma, NREL/Light-Trapping, Enclosed Planar-Cavity Receiver Microchannel receivers: Vinod Narayanan, University of California Davis/Additively Manufactured Metallic Micro-Pin Array Receivers Jeff Halfinger, CTP USA/Multilayer Silicon Carbide Composite Material Technology |
5:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
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