INSHIP: Integrating National Research Agendas on Solar Heat for Industrial Processes
Even though process heat has the highest potential among solar heating and cooling applications, Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP) still presents accounts only for about 0.3% of total installed solar thermal capacity worldwide.
The INSHIP project focuses on engaging major European research institutes with recognized activities on SHIP, into an integrated structure that could successfully coordinate the achievement of the following objectives:
- more effective and intense cooperation between EU research institutions
- alignment of different SHIP related national research and funding programs, avoiding overlaps and duplications and identifying gaps
- acceleration of knowledge transfer to the European industry
The project aspires to become the reference organization to promote and coordinate the international cooperation in SHIP research from and to Europe, while developing coordinated R&D TRLs 2-5 activities with the ambition of progressing SHIP beyond the state-of-the-art through:
- an easier integration of low and medium temperature technologies suiting the operation, durability and reliability requirements of industrial end users
- expanding the range of SHIP applications to the Energy Intensive( EI) sector through the development of suitable process embedded solar concentrating technologies, overcoming the present barrier of applications only in the low and medium temperature ranges
- increasing the synergies within industrial parks, through centralized heat distribution networks and exploiting the potential synergies of these networks with district heating and with the electricity grid
CyI Principal Investigator: Prof. Manuel Blanco
INSHIP and some of its results were presented in the 2020 Winter edition of the European Energy Innovation Magazine, where the future of R&D for Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP) was discussed, alongside a presentation of some Key results primed for commercial exploitation that sprung out of the project
More info here, pages 52-53.
Additional Info
- Acronym: INSHIP
- Website: http://www.inship.eu/
- Center: EEWRC
- Funding Source: Call: H2020-LCE-2016-2017 (Topic: LCE-33-2016)
- CyI Funding: €270,215
- Funding Period: 4 years
- Starting Date: 1st January 2017
- End Date: 31st December 2021
- Coordinator: Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE)
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Partners: Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile, Italy
Arbeitsgemeinschaft - erneuerbare energie - institut fur nachhaltige technologien, Austria
Associacao do instituto superior tecnico para a investigacao e desenvolvimento, Portugal
Centre for renewable energy sourcesand saving foundation, Greece
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France
Centro de investigacion cooperativade energias alternativas fundacion, Spain
Centro de investigaciones energeticas, medioambientales y tecnologicas-ciemat, Spain
Commissariat a l energie atomique et aux energies alternatives, France
Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, Italy
Cranfield university, United kingdom
Deutsches zentrum fuer luft - und raumfahrt ev, Germany
Eidgenoessische technische hochschule zuerich, Switzerland
European energy research alliance eera aisbl, Belgium
Fondazione bruno Kessler, Italy
Fraunhofer gesellschaft zur foerderung der angewandten forschung e.v., Germany
Fundacion cener-ciemat, Spain
Fundacion centro tecnologico avanzado de energias renovables de andalucia, Spain
Fundacion imdea energia, Spain
Fundacion tecnalia research & innovation, Spain
Fundacion tekniker, Spain
Laboratorio nacional de energia e geologia i.p., Portugal
Middle east technical university, Turkey
The cyprus institute limited, Cyprus
Universidad de sevilla, Spain
Universidade de evora, Portugal
Universita degli studi di Firenze, Italy
Universita degli studi di napoli federico ii., Italy
Universita degli studi di Palermo, Italy
