Lead Country: Germany (Dr. Pedro Horta - Fraunhofer ISE)
Initially: Switzerland (Dr. Elimar Frank - SPF)

• Improving solar process heat collectors and loop components

• Providing a basis for the comparison of collectors with respect to technical and economical conditions

• Giving comprehensive recommendations for standardized testing procedures

Lead country: Austria (DI Bettina Muster – AEE INTEC)

• Improved solar thermal system integration for production processes

  • by advanced heat integration and storage management,

  • advanced methodology for decision on integration place and integration types

• Increase of the solar process heat potential by combining

  • process intensification and solar thermal systems

  • fostering new applications for solar (thermal/UV) technologies

Lead country: Germany (Dr. Werner Platzer - Fraunhofer ISE)

• to provide a worldwide overview of results and experiences from solar heat for industrial process systems.

• to develop a performance assessment methodology for a comparison and analysis of different applications, collector systems, regional and climatic conditions

• to support future project stake holders by providing design guidelines, simplified fast and easy to handle calculation tools for solar yields and performance assessment

• to solutions for stagnations behaviour , control and hydraulics of large field installations

• to identify, address and lower the barriers for market deployment by giving examples of successful implementation,

• to disseminate the knowledge to the main target groups