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Fibre Reinforced Composite Reflectors for Concentrated Solar Power Plants

Coordinatore	EPM TECHNOLOGY LTD    more  Organization address address: VICTORIA ROAD 20 city: DRAYCOTT postcode: DE72 3PS contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Graham Cognome: Mulholland Email: send email Telefono: 441333000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	1˙414˙187 €
EC contributo	1˙104˙000 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2011
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-01-01   -   2014-06-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	EPM TECHNOLOGY LTD  Organization address address: VICTORIA ROAD 20 city: DRAYCOTT postcode: DE72 3PS contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Graham Cognome: Mulholland Email: send email Telefono: 441333000000	UK (DRAYCOTT)	coordinator	209˙270.00
2	SURCOTEC SA  Organization address address: CHEMIN DU PONT DU CENTENAIRE 109A city: PLAN LES OUATES postcode: 1228 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Dominique Cognome: Pellaton Email: send email Telefono: +41 22794 7383 Fax: +41 22794 7360	CH (PLAN LES OUATES)	participant	233˙583.00
3	AMBER COMPOSITES LTD  Organization address address: STATION ROAD 94 LANGLEY MILL city: NOTTINGHAM postcode: NG16 4BP contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: David Cognome: Jones Email: send email Telefono: +441773 530899	UK (NOTTINGHAM)	participant	219˙543.00
4	BOLUDA DIVISION INDUSTRIAL SL  Organization address address: "CALLE JOIERS, VIAL A, NAVE 9 17-19" city: PALAU SOLITA I PLEGAMANS postcode: 8184 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Marta Cognome: Mur Email: send email Telefono: 34938644942	ES (PALAU SOLITA I PLEGAMANS)	participant	186˙294.12
5	SOLARLITE GMBH  Organization address address: SCHLOSS DUCKWITZ 10 city: DUCKWITZ postcode: 17179 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Catrin Cognome: Gäde Email: send email Telefono: +49 0 39972 5697 28 Fax: +49 0 39972 5697 10	DE (DUCKWITZ)	participant	101˙212.88
6	TWI LIMITED  Organization address address: Granta Park, Great Abington city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6AL contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Lucy Cognome: Parker Email: send email Telefono: +44 1223899532	UK (CAMBRIDGE)	participant	63˙097.00
7	DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV  Organization address address: Linder Hoehe city: KOELN postcode: 51147 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Georg Cognome: Böhm Email: send email Telefono: +49 2203 6012972 Fax: +49 2203 6014141	DE (KOELN)	participant	62˙500.00
8	CENTAR ZA PLAZMA TEHNOLOGII PLAZMA DOO  Organization address address: VELJKO VLAHOVIC 18 MEZANIN city: Skopje postcode: 1000 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Mence Cognome: Nasova Email: send email Telefono: +389 70 351471	MK (Skopje)	participant	28˙500.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The principle of concentrated solar power (CSP) is to reflect and focus solar energy collected from a wide area on to one point, using the thermal energy to produce steam or a hot liquid in order to transfer or store the energy.

For this proposal, the solar collector will be made of carbon fibre composite material. This can be designed to be stiff (maintaining its position) whilst being light weight. For a similar sized currently used heliostat CSP, the structure would be self supporting (Sandwich structure) the weight would be 627kg, giving a weight saving of 80% of the backed structure and 23% of the unreinforced glass collector.

This weight saving has benefits in terms of installation and transportation, but the main advantage of the weight saving is, the energy required to adjust the collector would be greatly reduced thus a reduced energy control system could move the collectors during service. With the metal components removed, corrosion resistance is greatly reduced. An advantage of a carbon fibre structure is the low coefficient of thermal expansion. In the areas that will benefit most from a CSP, the arid conditions produce high temperature variations daily.

The technical goal of this project is to produce lightweight yet robust components for CSP collector components. Materials and processes will be identified and exploited to optimise the product and issues preventing optimisation will be investigated and solved. This proposal will have several aspects of work. Design and production of a novel composite collector, producing an adequate reflective surface on the composite, ensuring composite supports for the reflective surface, protecting that surface, and evaluating the effectiveness of the product. Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) will be considered to deposit a highly reflective coating onto a composite that will need to be manufactured to a high accuracy (surface finish) and durability.'