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OPTEC Seminar - Jan Gall

Wed 10 Dec 2008 16:00-17:00, ESAT 00.62

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"On Central Receiver Solar Power Plants"
Jan Gall, RWTH Aachen

The replacement of fossil fuels by renewable energy is one of the most challenging tasks in energy development. Concentrating solar power (CSP) systems represent one promising technology in this field. These systems use mirrors or lenses to focus sunlight into a small beam and utilize this bundled light as heat source for downstream processes.

This talk introduces Central Receiver Power Plants as one upcoming technology for solar power generation. An introduction to this technology will be given including a presentation of the main control tasks in this kind of power plants. Subsequently, the modelling aspects for numerical simulation will be presented. The talk concludes with a proof that one major task in Central Receiver Systems (CRSs), finding an optimal solar flux distribution on the receiver, is an NP-hard optimization problem.

Short link	http://www.kuleuven.be/optec/event/842
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Two OPTEC professors have been awarded three "Gouden Krijtjes", the yearly teaching awards given by the organization of engineering students (vtk). Prof. Lombaert was awarded the prize for the best course in civil engineering, and Prof. Diehl the prizes for the best professor and the best course in mathematical engineering (where he teaches numerical optimization). They received these awards at the yearly "proffentap" where experienced students taught them how to draft beer professionally.