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IEA SHC – Task 49 – 7th Expert Meeting

Dharshini / March 9, 2015

IEA SHC Task 49: Solar Process Heat for Production and Advanced Applications The Solar Heat for Industrial Processes – SHIP database has been created in the framework of the IEA Task 49/IV. This online database contains a worldwide overview on existing solar thermal plants which provide thermal energy for production processes for different industry sectors. Each plant description contains a number of information e.g. about the size of the collector field, collector technology or integration point in the production process. The user of the database has the possibility to extract detail information from all identified solar thermal plants and create statistics like the share of collector technologies, size of the collector field per country or industry sector and cost per square meter. The SHIP – database is a living platform and will grow immensely. It is a privilege to receive the invite as an expert for the IEA SHC Task 49 7th meeting happening at San Sebastian, Spain on 12th and 13th of March 2015. Aspiration Energy an early mover in mid, high temperature sector, stayed course in this pioneering area of Industrial heating and today we are proud to showcase some of our successes at IEA SHC.. What is the objective of IEA Task 49/IV? Develop and improve solar process heat collectors and components Analyze and provide new knowledge on high temperature behavior of process heat collectors and solar loops Develop a testing procedure and to provide a basis for the comparison of collectors under certain conditions Provide engineering tools for optimized heat integration and optimized planning of solar thermal integration by advanced pinch analysis and storage management Identify new applications for solar thermal energy in several production processes through the combination of process intensification technologies Develop planning tools, calculation tools for solar yields in large scale plants Gain proven solutions for stagnation behavior Install and monitor large-scale demonstration systems Develop guidelines for solar process heat To lower the barriers for market deployment Bhoo also been invited to do a presentation on “Solar Heat Integration in Industrial Processes”, organized in the framework of the joint task of IEA SHC Task 49 and Solar Paces IV on 11th March 2015. Excited on the happenings and representing India as an expert is a proud moment for us at Aspiration Energy. Will update more on the happenings after the Task 49, Expert Meet. ~Viji Suresh

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SHIP – the Noah’s Ark of energy?

Dharshini / February 25, 2015

SHIP – the Noah’s Ark of energy? Solar Heat for Industrial Process – is now named as SHIP by many consortium around the world, particularly Europe. It is so economical that I feel it is aptly called as SHIP. It is like Noah’s Ark of the energy future! SHIP: Renewed focus in Europe Good to see this project. There is a lot of focus on SHIP – Solar Heat for Industrial Process – here.

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Better late than never – October 2014 events

Dharshini / January 21, 2015

It has been a month since I wrote a blog post. I noticed that there were few interesting programs I attended during the month of October and November but missed out writing about them. Thought of sharing it now, it is better to be late than never 🙂 I attended 2 events within a span of 3 days – both focused on our field: The first was a stakeholder Workshop – II on “Vision and Action Plan for development of decentralized solar thermal in India ” on October 14, 2014 in New Delhi. This was conducted by Shakti Foundation and Greentech knowledge solutions. Sameer Maithel, spoke about the Chasm in Industrial Process Heat. How real! How insightful! Yes, we have such huge number of leads – we are talking with who-is-who of the industry – TVS, Tata, Godrej, ITC, Mahindra, and so on. But, even in our sales cycle – it is a chasm – the technical evaluation gets over, the commercial evaluation gets over – but before it translates to Purchase Order, there is a Chasm. The chasm is one of getting all the stakeholders together and making them fully motivated to transact. I am happy to see that the industry is seeing this Chasm and making efforts to close it. We can all read this book: Crossing the chasm The second was a Workshop on monitoring, design and certification of solar process heat on 16 October 2014 in New Delhi. This was conducted by So-Pro India. Tarun Kapoor, Joint Secreatry of MNRE attended both the sessions. This shows the growing interest in our chosen area. I am very happy that this often neglected area is grabbing attention. Both sessions talked about how we can get policy / market awareness and credibility changes to grow the market for Solar Heating. There was a significant focus on Solar Heat for Industrial Process (SHIP) So-Pro event was 100% focused on Industrial process heat. One thing of great note here – like in any business, the quality of entrepreneurs and eco-system during the initial period determines the growth of the industry. In that sense, it is great to be part of this community – the people who were present were tachnically, commercially and behaviorally so competent to understand issues, their solutions and way to take this industry forward. Great to be part of this community.