The ORC-PLUS project summary report for the periodic report 1

The summary report of the ORC-PLUS project has been published on the European Commission website to present the status of the project after one year and a half of work.

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project ORC-PLUS aims at increasing the technological performance of renewable energy systems, reducing costs and improving dispatchability (production on demand) and number of hours of production of an existing small CSP plant located in a desert area of Morocco. The technology proposed is based on a solar field, using a thermal oil as Heat Transfer Fluid and Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) power unit coupled with an innovative Thermal Energy Storage (TES).

Read more here : http://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/196437_en.html

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