7:30 - 8:30

Travel from Hotel Elba to PSA

8:30 - 9:30

Welcome and Registration

9:30 - 11:00

Visit to PSA

11:00 - 11:05

Opening

Diego Martínez

TOPIC: MODELLING AND SOLAR COMPONENTS

SESSION I (Proposed chairman: Luis Yebra)

11:05 - 11:30

Chattering problem in dynamic mathematical two-phase flow models

Javier Bonilla

11:30 - 11:55

Monte-Carlo ray-tracing modelling of a novel solar trough concentrator coupled to a secondary reflector

Roman Bader

11:55 - 12:10

Modelling and simulation of dynamic effects on an open volumetric air receiver

Nils Ahlbrink

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch at `Las Eras´ Restaurant

SESSION II (Proposed chairman: Robert Pitz-Paal)

14:00 - 14:25

Experimental determination of thermal radiative properties of densely packed zinc oxide particulate media

Patrick Coray

14:25 - 14:50

Development of a tube receiver for a solar-hybrid microturbine system

Lars Amsbeck

14:50 - 15:15

Tomography based determination of effective properties for porous media - A multi-scale approach

Sophia Haussener

15:15 - 15:40

Development of optimized aim point strategies for central receiver Systems

Boris Belhomme

15:40 - 16:05

Measurement of the heat losses of parabolic trough receivers

Andreas Orth

16:30 - 17:30

Travel to Sorbas

18:00 - 19:30

Visit to Gypsum Karst in Sorbas

19:30 - 20:30

Travel to Hotel Elba

7:30 - 8:30

Travel from Hotel Elba to PSA

TOPIC:DISINFECTION AND DETOXIFICATION

SESSION III (Proposed chairman: Sixto Malato)

8:30 - 8:55

The effect of turbidity on solar disinfection (SODIS)

Inmaculada Polo

8:55 - 9:20

Degradation of emerging contaminants at low concentration by solar AOPs in a pilot plant

Noelia Miranda

9:20 - 9:45

Degradation of emerging contaminants at low concentrations by photo-Fenton

Nikolaus Klamerth

9:45 - 10:10

Coupled solar photo-Fenton and biological oxidation for the degradation of a commercial pesticide mixture

Ana Zapata

10:15 - 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 - 11:10

Treatment of antibiotics used in aquaculture by photocatalytical processes under solar radiation

Carla Sirtori

TOPIC: SOLAR DESALINATION

11:10 - 11:35

Seawater desalination by solar driven membrane distillation

Elena Guillén

TOPIC: SOLAR FUELS

SESSION IV (Proposed chairman: Aldo Steinfeld)

11:35 - 12:00

CO₂ splitting via a solar thermochemical cycle based on Zn/ZnO redox reactions: Thermodynamic and kinetic analysis

Illias Hischier

12:00 - 12:25

Development and evaluation of a two step thermo-chemical cycle for solar hydrogen generation

Jan Peter Säck

12:25 - 12:35

Process and Components' Modelling and Simulation for thermochemical hydrogen production

Nicolas Bayer-Botero

12:40 - 14:00

Lunch at `Las Eras´ Restaurant

TOPIC: SOLAR FUELS

SESSION V (Proposed chairman: Aldo Steinfeld)

14:00 - 14:25

Modelling of a two-phase solid-gas flow exposed to concentrated thermal radiation

Gilles Maag

14:25 - 14:50

Hydrogen production by in-situ formation and hydrolysis of zinc nanoparticles

Tom Melchior

14:50 - 15:15

Kinetic investigations of the redox-reaction of mixed iron-oxides coated on ceramic substrates for solar hydrogen production

Martina Neises

15:15 - 15:40

Solar driven steam gasification of coal for synthesis gas production in a packed bed reactor

Nicolas Piatkowski

15:40 - 16:10

Coffee break

SESSION VI (Proposed chairman: Gilles Flamant)

16:10 - 16:35

The influence of radiative transfer on methane cracking in a high temperature solar reactor

Cyril Caliot

16:35 - 17:00

The SnO2/SnO thermochemical cycle for solar hydrogen production from water: trends and kinetics

Marc Chambon

17:00 - 17:25

Thermal dissociation of methane - research into reaction kinetics

Michael Wullenkord

17:25 - 17:50

Solar thermal dissociation of methane in a 10 kW tubular reactor

Sylvain Rodat

18:00 - 19:00

Travel to Hotel Elba

21:00

Dinner at Hotel Elba

7:30 - 8:30

Travel from Hotel Elba to PSA

TOPIC: CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER

SESSION VII (Proposed chairman: Hans Müller-Steinhagen)

8:30 - 8:55

Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technical-economic study

Yawei Zong

8:55 - 9:20

Experimental method for the characterisation of thermal dispersive effects of forced convective flow in sintered metal foams

Stefan Brendelberger

9:20 - 9:45

Development of a high temperature air solar receiver based on compact heat exchanger technology

Mathieu Vrinat

9:45 - 10:10

Thermal performance measurements of concentrating collectors, loops and fields with non-invasive measurement techniques

Nicole Janotte

10:10 - 10:40

Coffee break

SESSION VIII (Proposed chairman: Alain Ferriere)

10:40 - 11:05

Geometrical optimization of a solar thermochemical reactor by constructal approach

Stefania Tescari

11:05 - 11:30

Assessment of solar power tower driven ultra supercritical steam cycles applying tubular central receivers with various heat transfer media

Csaba Singer

11:30 - 11:55

Numerical investigation of a turbulent flow submitted to a high temperature gradient

Sylvain Serra

11:55 - 12:20

Global revenue optimization for solar thermal power plants with integrated storage using dynamic programming technique

Michael Wittmann

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch at `Las Eras´ Restaurant

14:00 - 14:30

Discussion and Closing session

14:30 - 15:30

Travel to Hotel Elba

16:30 - 20:00

Sport tournaments at the Beach (football and volley ball)