


The main objective of this work package is to supervise and coordinate the adequate implementation of the Work Plan (overall project management and coordination to ensure a proper development of the project and collaboration among the partners to guarantee the quality and delivery of results in a timely, cost-effective and scientifically sound way) and, in parallel, to define, implement and construct all considered needed basic elements to the creation of the integrated structure which will operate “beyond” INSHIP, ensuring the sustainable maintenance of the European Research Excellence in SHIP technologies research by the pooling of research capacities in order to favour the promotion and the exploitation of more complex research results and also sharing of the access among ECRIA participants to their own relevant intellectual property (IP) assets (foreground and background).
This Work package aims at investigate a better integration between stationary or quasi-static solar collector technologies in low temperature SHIP (80ºC – 150°C), bridging the actual gaps, the main of which are below reported:
Presently, process heat applications are suited by a growing range of solar thermal concentrating technologies, all of them presenting products already in pre-commercial or commercial stage (TRLs 8 and 9). Yet, the adoption of such technologies in industrial production still poses technical questions either at integration (supply or process level integration) and system design levels (in both existing and new industrial plants). This work package aims at the development of research activities tackling the most pressing obstacles currently faced by solar thermal technologies on this regard, aiming the development of technological solutions coping with reliability, low O&M and low energy cost requirements, namely:
Solar thermochemical processes make use of concentrated solar radiation as the energy source of process heat to drive endothermic reactions. Three categories of high-temperature energy-intensive processes are considered: i) solar metallurgy, ii) solar lime, and iii) solar fuels. To provide the high-temperature solar reactors with highly concentrated sunlight, specific solar optics technologies are required. This work package aims at advancing the development of hightemperature/ high-flux solar chemical reactor technologies and concepts. The following objectives can be summarized:
Whereas the specific topics addressed in this WP feature concrete applications in the metallurgical, chemical ad pretrochemical sectors, the results attained within the scope of technical-economic assessments and/or suitable optical designs are likely to be of further use in the development of applications in other sectors, such as e.g. the glass sector.
Solar heat has the potential to play an enormous part in industrial energy supply infrastructure if its integration is
optimally embedded in a future hybrid energy supply system of industrial companies. Solar heat will not be a stand-alone
solution to the thermal energy demand of industry and interactions with other energy carriers are therefore a key for
successful SHIP project implementations. Solar process heat design is heavily related to the required temperature level
and heat load, thus it is also strongly interlinked with energy efficiency measures and choice of process technologies.
The development of innovative 100% renewable energy supply solutions for industry with solar process heat as a core
energy supply technology is the overall objective of this work package.
The following objectives can be summarized:
This work package aims at further developing the cooperation between the SHIP research community at full European
level (within the EERA JP-CSP) by targeting two specific requirements of the call: a) Extensive sharing of existing
research facilities, models and databases to optimize Research Infrastructures (RI) capacity; b) Definition of an exchange
program of key staff researchers to use the previously indicated shared facilities as well as to facilitate co-operation and
substantially reinforcing the partnership among the whole consortium.
Both previous initiatives will be defined in the context of scientific research activities previously defined into WP2,
WP3, WP4 and WP5. Additional objectives of this WP are:
INSHIP aims to define a European Common Research and Innovation Agenda (ECRIA) in the context of the SET Action Plan, and in particular the SET Integrated Roadmap , engaging major European research institutes, with relevant and recognized activities on SHIP, into an integrated structure that could successfully achieve the following coordination objectives:
To achieve these objectives, the consortium will build on the previous achievements of the FP7 STAGE-STE IRP (Integrated Research Programme), and in particular using as a starting point the National Working Groups already set up in Cyprus, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland by STAGE-STE, national task forces will be established in the field of SHIP, bringing together national authorities, funding agencies, and research partners. In Austria, Greece, and Turkey, these task forces will have to be established without the umbrella of an existing National Working Group. These task forces will then implement the activities described below.
Main objective of this Work Package is to build the large transnational critical mass required by the call. To this goal, the rest of organizations belonging to the EERA JP-CSP are added here in order to provide a clear European added-value around the SHIP topic. This WP is also considered a needed complement of all previously defined ECRIA activities to make possible to lay the strongest foundations for long-lasting future cooperation on SHIP by involving the large majority of existing research capabilities in Europe. Besides ECRIA research activities are focused on TRLs from 2 to 5, another objective of this WP is to create the needed pillars to, later on, translate the developed foreground to the industry (i.e., moving the know-how to higher TRLs), creating in parallel a consolidated European structure on SHIP research. The enlargement of ECRIA consortium to address this WP is also considered an essential element. Such goal will be achieved through: