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particular) due to its low visibility
among the general public, and
the inadequately communicated
potential.
The project has embarked on
an ambitious programme of
disseminating these findings, and
other important outcomes as the
project’s KERs (Key Exploitable
Results) to national audiences,
comprising the local industry,
academia and policy makers through
national workshops held between
2019 and 2020 in all involved
countries. Three workshops have
already taken place in Greece, Spain
and France. More will follow within
2020.
INSHIP integrates a high number of
research activities (44) across low,
medium and high temperatures as
well as in hybrid systems. Some
of them progressed to a high level
of maturity, with a potential to be
commercially deployed, with a
lifetime that goes well beyond the
end of INSHIP. Some of them are
listed below:
• Solar volumetric receivers with an
innovative hierarchical structure
(Fig 1). To overcome the high
cost of ceramic materials of high
temperature solar volumetric
receivers, a metal using selective
laser melting (SLM) was tested in
the INSHIP concept providing an
efficient and tailored geometry.
The new receiver exhibits a
hierarchically layered volumetric
structure and provides heat for
high-temperature processes
(>600°C) with an efficiency
reaching more than 60%.
• Another outcome of the project
can also be found in the setup of
a new quasi-stationary CPC-type
solar thermal collector. This new
cost-effective linear focussing
collector for industrial applications
of up to 200 ºC can be installed on
all surfaces including vertical and
tilted ones. Overall, this product
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Fig. 3 Scheme of alternative low-cost collector for medium temperature
can have a higher performance- Fig. 4 Solar dish with spherical
to-cost ratio compared to mirror
standard technologies – due to
its novel optical design – and on the project, the consortium and
lower maintenance than tracking related activities and resources is
solutions. available at the INSHIP website
(www.inship.eu).
• Encapsulated parabolic trough INSHIP ECRIA is a Research and
solar collectors working at Innovation Action supported by the
200°C were also developed (Fig European Commission under Horizon
2 & 3). They can be installed in 2020 (LCE-33-2016, GA Nr. 731287). l
buildings facades, encapsulated
in a small greenhouse protecting INSHIP Coordinator
the system from the wind. With Dr. Peter Nitz
an optimized weight, the plug Fraunhofer ISE
and play mechanism allows swift contact@inship.eu
installation, and the front glass
window enables easier cleaning
than conventional systems. This
solution eases maintenance in
buildings where space is scarce.
• A solar dish with spherical mirror
has also been studied in the
framework of INSHIP (Fig 4 ). The
mirror is cheaper than a parabolic
mirror, while the structure of the
solar dish makes the installation
of the system on non-flat lands
possible. Its range of application
is adequate for processes with a
working temperature between 600
and 1350 °C.
The project is presently at the end
of its third year, with a total project
duration of four years. Information