Program of the 7th SOLLAB Doctoral Colloquium 2011
| Monday, March 21 | ||
| 08:30 | Registration | |
| 08:50 | Welcoming | |
| CSP | ||
| 09:00 | Optical design of a solar trough concentrating system for medium- and high-concentration photovoltaics | Thomas Cooper |
| 09:15 | Linear Fresnel Reflector based Concentrating Solar Power plant: Influence of the optical accuracy of the concentrator's components | Francois Veynandt |
| 09:40 | Determination of circumsolar radiation and its effect on focusing collectors | Stefan Wilbert |
| 10:05 | Experimental characterization of 3-D heat flux distribution of a 7 kWe solar simulator | Fabrisio Gomez |
| 10:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:50 | Methods to analyze the durability of solar reflectors | Florian Sutter |
| 11:15 | Study of solar materials accelerated aging to perform durability predictions | Antoine Boubault |
| 11:40 | Parametric analysis of receiver durability and efficiency at high solar flux | Eneko Setien |
| 12:05 | Lunch | |
| Solar Thermochemistry | ||
| 14:00 | Optical and thermodynamic considerations for a solar water splitting model | Matthias Lange |
| 14:25 | Thermal dissociation of ZnO using concentrated solar power - Reactor modeling, optimization and scale-up | Willy Villasmil |
| 14:50 | Syngas production from H2O and CO2 over Zn particles in a packed bed reactor | Anastasia Stamatiou |
| 15:15 | Two-step solar thermochemical cycle for splitting H2O and CO2 via ceria redox reactions | Philipp Furler |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| CSP | ||
| 16:00 | A solar cavity receiver packed with an array of thermoelectric converter modules - Experimentation, modeling and optimization | Clemens Suter |
| 16:25 | High temperature heat storage for thermal protection of solar power plants | David Bellard |
| 16:50 | Simulation of combined parabolic-trough solar power plants and desalination facilities in arid regions | Patricia Palenzuela |
| 17:15 | Design and implementation of a new 5 kWe Solar ORC pilot plant at the PSA | Mercedes Ibarra |
| 17:40 | Break | |
| 19:15 | Dinner | |
| Tuesday, March 22 | ||
| CO2 capturing and Decontamination | ||
| 09:00 | CO2 capture from air | Christoph Gebald |
| 09:25 | Temperature vacuum swing regeneration of amine functionalized solid sorbents for CO2 capture from air | Jan Andre Wurzbacher |
| 09:50 | Air decontamination by heterogeneous photocatalysis | Maria Munoz-Vicente |
| 10:15 | Optimization of Solar Photo-Fenton treatment for WWTP effluents containing emerging contaminants | Lucia Prieto Rodriguez |
| 10:40 | Coffee Break | |
| Modeling | ||
| 11:10 | Tomography based determination of permeability and Dupuit Forchheimer coefficient of characteristic snow samples | Emilie Zermatten |
| 11:25 | Dynamic wind loads on heliostats | Felipe Vasquez |
| 11:40 | High temperature thermal storage for concentrating solar power: Model and experimental results | Giw Zanganeh |
| 11:55 | Lunch | |
| 13:15 | Outdoor Activity | |
| Solar Thermochemistry | ||
| 17:15 | Fuel production by reduction of CO2 using concentrated sunlight - A material study | Friedemann Call |
| 17:40 | Solar driven gasification of micro algal biomass in a two zone reactor - Thermodynamic analysis and reactor design | Michael Kruesi |
| 17:55 | Assessment of the hybrid sulfur cycle | Nicolas Bayer Botero |
| 18:20 | Vacuum distillation of aluminum via carbothermal reduction of Al2O3 with concentrated solar energy | Enrico Guglielmini |
| 18:35 | Doped ceria materials for hydrogen production via two step thermochemical water splitting cycles | Alex Le Gal |
| 19:00 | Break | |
| 19:30 | Dinner | |
| Wednesday, March 23 | ||
| CSP | ||
| 09:00 | A solar particle receiver for small gas turbine systems | Wei Wu |
| 09:25 | Modeling and Characterizing a Solar Particle Receiver | Birgit Gobereit |
| 09:50 | Determination of an internal geometry for a ceramic high temperature pressurized-air solar receiver | Xavier Daguenet |
| 10:15 | Modeling and conception of a solar receiver carrying pressurized air for the PEGASE project | Benjamin Grange |
| 10:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | An air based cavity receiver for solar trough concentrators | Roman Bader |
| 11:25 | Improved high-temperature solar receiver design for parabolic trough concentrators | Men Wirz |
| 11:40 | Experimental study of a ceramic solar receiver | Arnaud Colleoni |
| 12:05 | Theoretical proof of concept of an optimal solar receiver to produce low temperature cooling using a thermoacoustic trithermal machine | Sophie Cordillet |
| 12:30 | Closing Session | |
| 12:50 | Lunch | |