The SFERA-III (Solar Facilities for the European Research Area) project opened, on November 16, the 3rd transnational campaign of proposals for access to concentrated solar thermal power facilities, with registrations running until January 31, 2021.
The Renewable Energies Chair at the University of Évora (CER-UÉ, Portuguese acronym) is one of the receiving institutions for participating researchers. In Évora, it will be possible to conduct research at CER-UÉ, at the Solar Concentrator Testing Platform (PECS), at the National Research Infrastructure on Solar Energy Concentration (INIESC), and at the Solar DNI Assessment network. The availability period for each of the four facilities is 8 weeks of access.
The call allows free access for researchers to 22 installations of 12 research infrastructures in Solar Thermal Concentration, from eight countries (Cyprus, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey). The spectrum of infrastructures has a wide range of scientific experiments, in research laboratories and infrastructures in various fields, such as the solar thermal electricity generation, solar fuels production, cycles of chemical storage of solar energy, solar water treatment, solar heating and cooling of buildings to improve energy efficiency, modeling and controlling of concentrating solar technologies for power plants and for industrial processes, high value material synthesis and coatings deposits, high-flux photochemistry and photo-physics, and characterization of materials behavior and properties under extreme conditions.
More information, forms and registration on the SFERA-III website.
