1. 1 Demonstration of innovating multipurpose solar plants Dr.Amr Radwan Projects Manager, Academy of Scientific Research & Technology ENSTINET, Academy of Scientific Research & Technology

2. Demonstration of innovating multipurpose CSP …. Waste2green National Initiative towards Waste Water desalination using CSP For Green Pharmaceutical Companies (Waste2green) Coordinated by HU & ASRT 2

3. Waste2green…concept The pharmaceutical industry involves of huge amount of drainage water that is used in their production lines. Unfortunately, this water is contaminated with chemicals that cannot be in the normal sewerage system. The industrial codes enforce expensive schemes for disposing this water that insures the environmental protection. GSK (Glaxo Smith Kline) is one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in Egypt that disposes contaminated water. Of course, this amount is a huge burden on the company. 3

4. Waste2green…Aims In this project, an innovative scheme is proposed for desalinating 3 to 4 cubic meters per day of this contaminated water. The output of this scheme will be pure desalinated water that may be used in the production lines. In addition, the system will output the hazardous chemicals as a concentrated liquid. The volume of this liquid be very small that can be inexpensively disposed. The proposed desalination unit would require 60 KW-Thermal. …..Solar power is proposed to supply this heat energy. A small scale CSP along with a flat panel collector will be implemented. As an option, the system may also use any wasted heat that might be involved in the production lines. Exact assessment of this option could be achieved during the first phase of the project. An artificial intelligence-based controller is proposed to optimize the power extraction from all the heat energy resources. The optimization scheme will consider desalination system demand variations as well as sun power seasonal and daily variations. 4

5. Specific Objectives: Analysis and design the waste water desalination unit and the needed solar energy. Manufacturing and delivery desalination unit and solar energy system. System installation for GSK Egyptian branch of a multinational company Monitoring and optimization of the combination of the solar energy system and waste water desalination unit, Exploitation and dissemination of the project results Helwan university (HU), Egyptian National Scientific and technical Information Network at Academy of Scientific Research (ENSTINET/ASRT), GlaxoSmithKline company (GSK), Solar energy company (SEC), New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) and the European partners: Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment (ENEA), Terrawater company (TW) 5

6. Action plan I. Workpackage 1: System requirement and data gathering Leader: Helwan University, Co-leader: ENSTINET/ASRT Participants: All participants II. Workpackage 2: System Modeling, Mathematical Model for solar plants Leader: ENEA (Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment) Participants: Helwan University III. Workpackage 3: System Design Leader: ENEA Participants: Helwan University and Solar Energy company (Egyptian SME) IV. Workpackage 4: System Implementation Leader: Solar Energy Participants: Terrawater V. Workpackage 5: Testing and optimizing results Leader: NREA (New and Renewable Energy Authority) Participants: all partners VI. Workpackage 6: Exploitation of results and dissemination Leader: ENSTINET/ASRT (Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology) Participants: all partners 6

7. Expected outcome: - The project will present an innovative utilization of CSP and flat solar collector. The system will employ state of the art optimization technique based on artificial intelligence to maximize the utilization of the energy resources. - Solar thermal based waste water desalination system. The proposed system will be ready for replication in many pharmaceutical companies. Other areas of application will be also investigated. - Egyptian SME will get the experience for developing a marketable system. - The artificial intelligence-based controller would be proposed for a patent. - Waste2green proposal will be connected to other related initiatives and project to synergize and avoid any duplication in the research activities. - Waste2green proposal will have high environmental, economic and industrial impact; it is also contributing to the cost-effectiveness, the one-time cost concept and development of the new technology. 7

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9. Demonstration of innovating multipurpose solar plants Multipurpose Applications by Thermodynamic Solar Coordinated by ENEA 9

10. Concept The well-known energy problem due to the unstable oil price, uncertain reserves capacity, and local and global pollution problems is stimulating the development of clean innovative technologies. The exploitation of renewable energy sources for heat and energy production is commonly considered the most promising way to reduce the impact of human activities on environment, Among renewable energy technologies, those exploiting solar energy seem to be the most applicable …..thanks to the huge and diffuse solar energy availability. Photovoltaic (PV) and Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants are today mature systems to convert solar radiation into exploitable energy at competitive costs, especially in countries belonging to the so-called “sun belt”. If PV cells allow direct conversion of solar radiation into electricity, CSP plants allow combined heat-and-power generation suitable for several industrial and residential applications. 10

11. Aim The aim is to promote the exploitation of concentrated solar energy through small and middle scale facilities, suitable to fulfill local requirements of power and heat, and easily to back-up with the renewable fuels locally already available or can be expressly produced. The implementation of the project will allow to test the CSP technology in a location very advantageous with regard to the solar radiation rate as example for the diffusion of this Tech to MPCs, Besides it will represent the start-up for a development of specialized local industries. More in detail, the this project is focused on the innovative CSP technology developed by ENEA as an improvement of its Solar Thermodynamic technology based on molten salts as heat transfer fluid. This technology, referred as TREBIOS, allows combined heat and power production from solar source integrated with renewable fuels, such as biomass, biogas, industrial residues etc. by means of standardized units that provide high performances and limited cost. 11

12. Objectives Full scale demonstration of TREBIOS technology through the industrial development, the realization and the experimental operation of a multipurpose facility to be installed in Egypt. The thermal energy produced by this plant will be used as energy source in a desalination unit included in the installation, as well as for district heating and cooling. The use of suitable heat storage systems enhance mismatch of power production from the instantaneous solar radiation availability. These features enable electrical energy production “on demand” and the optimized utilization of captured solar heat by additional loads like desalination units. The integration with a back up fuel like biomass makes the system flexible and enables continuous power production. 12

13. Desalination…. Activities: thermal energy produced by this plant will be used as energy source in a desalination unit included in the installation, as well as for district heating and cooling. The use of suitable heat storage systems enhance mismatch of power production from the instantaneous solar radiation availability. The integration with a back up fuel like biomass makes the system flexible and enables continuous power production. Partners: ENEA, (Italy coordinator), TECHNIP KTI (Italy), Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, ASRT (Egypt), New & Renewable Energy Authority, NREA (Egypt), Delft Environment (Egypt), Fraunhofer Institute (Germany), Cranfield University (UK), Orascom Construction Industries, OCI (Egypt), RONDA Group (Italy), French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (France), Archimede Solar Energy (Italy) 13

14. Future-2010-supporting activities Brokerage Era-wide FP7 Energy call ENPI STDF, Desalination 14

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