SUSTAINABLE PROCESS
INDUSTRY
EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL
COMPETTIVENESS TROUGH
RESOURCE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Solar cooling systems
TECSOL
TECSOL is among the engineering and R&D important players in this sector
(as well as some other R&D institutes such as Fraunhofer ISE in Germany or
EURAC in Italy) for more than 15 years.
TECSOL is in the forefront of the solar cooling technology (both Thermal and
Photovoltaic)
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Background information
In Europe, the actual trend in energy consumption for heating & cooling is
leading to a probable decrease on the heating side and an increase in the
cooling side (ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/etp/docs/rhc-vision_en.pdf , see
p.11)
Besides, no renewable energy at the moment is really convincing to deeply
manage the renewable cooling challenge.
Solar source looks to be very interesting for cooling because of the natural
adequation, especially in buildings. Several researches have been made on
the solar cooling approach, quite exclusively with a solar thermal angle.
Unfortunately, economically speaking, no real cost competitive solution has
been identified, especially in the range of less than 100 kW cooling.
Horizon 2020 LCE 2 topic related to Solar cooling systems:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020
/topics/1123-lce-02-2014.html)
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Project Idea Concept
TECSOL has identified that, with the important cost decrease
of the solar photovoltaic sector, the coupling solar PV+
reversible heat pump will be a very promising solution
where technical efforts have to be made on the control,
storage and grid interaction side.
On the solar thermal cooling approach, interesting
perspectives can be seen on the large system size (several
hundred kW cooling) but in Europe, this implies a very optimal
usage of all the solar thermal kWh produced, both for cooling
and heating (especially in heating/cooling networks). In this
last item, a conjunction with the SPIRE initiative could be
accurate after identifying if some Process Industry
applications can be technically and above all
economically compatible with the solar thermal cooling
concepts.
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Contact details
Daniel Mugnier
TECSOL SA.
105 av Alfred Kastler - BP 90434
66 004 PERPIGNAN Cedex - FRANCE
Tél : +33 (0) 4 68 68 16 42
Tél. port. : +33 (0) 6 67 52 41 06
Fax : +33 (0) 4 68 68 16 41
E-mail : daniel.mugnier@tecsol.fr
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