Program of the SFERA Winter School 2011
Solar Fuels & Materials
| Thursday, March 24 | ||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registration: 100 CHF or 80 € to be paid in cash | |
| 09:00 | Welcome | |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Prof. Aldo Steinfeld, ETH Zurich (Switzerland): Fundamentals of solar thermochemical processes |
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| 10:15 - 11:00 | Prof. Robert Pitz-Paal, DLR (Germany): Heliostat field design for solar thermochemical processes |
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| 11:15 - 12:00 | Dr. Martin Roeb, DLR (Germany): Sulfur-Iodine and ferrite-based thermochemical cycles for splitting H2O |
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| 12:15 - 13:00 | Dr. Jonathan Scheffe, ETH Zurich (Switzerland): Solar thermochemical cycles using thin film ferrites and other metal oxides |
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| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Dr. Sixto Malato, CIEMAT (Spain): Solar detoxification of water |
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| 15:45 - 16:30 | Dr. Michael Epstein, Weizmann Institute (Israel): Solar thermal reforming methane |
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| 16:45 - 17:30 | Dr. Gilles Maag, ETH Zurich (Switzerland): Solar co-production of H2 and C by thermal decomposition of CH4 |
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| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| Friday, March 25 | ||
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Dr. Anton Meier, Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland): The Zn-based thermochemical cycle for splitting H2O and CO2 |
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| 10:15 - 11:00 | Dr. Peter Loutzenhiser, ETH Zurich (Switzerland): Reduction of CO2 and H2O with Zn and FeO |
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| 11:15 - 12:00 | Dr. Marc Chambon, PSI (Switzerland): Solar thermochemical cycles based on the ZnO/Zn or SnO2/SnO redox couples |
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| 12:15 - 13:00 | Dr. Christian Wieckert, Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland): Solar carbothermic production of zinc |
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| 13:15 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Dr. Ivo Alxneit, Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland): Temperature measurement in solar furnaces and solar simulators |
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| 15:45 - 16:30 | Dr. Alfonso Vidal, CIEMAT (Spain): Solar gasification of petroleum coke |
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| 16:45 - 17:30 | Dr. Nic Piatkowski, ETH Zurich (Switzerland): Solar gasification of carbonaceous waste feedstock |
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| 18:00 | Adjournment | |