The OMSoP project, co-funded by the European Union's 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development aims to provide and demonstrate technical solutions for the use of state-of-the-art concentrated solar power system (CSP) coupled to micro-gas turbines (MGT) to produce electricity. The intended system will be modular and capable of producing electricity in the range of 3-10 kW.
The project aims to develop, test and verify the effectiveness of solar collector (solar thermal) systems for Stirling-engine based power generation, in which concentrated solar energy replace conventional combustion fuels. This type of solar electricity is environmentally friendly and benefits from high efficiencies, as well as being well suited for local power generation in remote/off-grid areas. In order for Stirling-engine based solar power systems to be competitive, efficient solar collectors are required to harness the Sun’s rays, concentrating them and converting them into a high-temperature heat source. The proposed project will develop a new, highly efficient, solar collector (goal efficiency > 87 %) for Stirling engines, whilst simultaneously fulfilling the demands for industrial durability and low product cost. Components will be developed and tested at the KTH solar lab facility and then validated in full -scale engine tests at Cleanergy’s Åmål test site.
IntegrCiTy is an ERA-NET European project involving researchers and industrial partners from Sweden, Switzerland and Austria. The main overall objective is to develop and implement a modular decision-support platform focusing on planning and designing integrated energy networks through multi-energy/networks co-simulation. Three pilot cases are under investigation: Hammarby Sjöstad (Stockholm, Sweden), Geneva (Switzerland) and Vevey (Switzerland).
The Tesconsol project is one of the several projects created within the KICInnoenergy platform. This project investigates cost effective thermal energy storage systems for concentrating solar power plants.
The Swedish research program TURBO POWER is a centre for gas and steam turbine research constituted as a consortium between technical universities and turbine manufacturers in Sweden. The overall goal of the centre, that was founded in 2007, is to build up a basis of knowledge at Swedish universities to support the industrial development in Sweden of gas and steam turbines of a sustainable future with expected requirements on low emissions, high efficiencies, high availability, and low costs. In short the TURBO POWER program can be described as a long term effort (12 years) on applied turbomachinery research for a sustainable energy society.
The CSP group currently has the following on-going projects within the Turbo Power consortium:
