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Solhycool at SolarPACES

The experimental results of a combined wet cooling tower and air condenser system were presented in a poster at the SolarPACES 2024 international congress. This congress, held in Rome from 8 to 11 October, is one of the most important in the field of concentrating solar power. SolarPACES (Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems) is an international collaborative network that brings together teams of national experts from around the world to focus on the development and commercialisation of concentrating solar power systems (also known as solar thermal energy systems).

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | 1 minute Read
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MEDNIGHT - Noche Europea de l@s Investig@dores

The Solhycool project, in collaboration with the MEDNIGHT project, participated in the activities of the Researchers’ Night organised by the University of Almería. As part of the Night in the Classrooms, we went to IES Mar Serena (Pulpí) and Villa de Vícar (La Gangosa) to explain solar thermal energy and the importance of water in these processes.

Friday, September 27, 2024 | 1 minute Read
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Visit to the Thermosolar plant in Villena

The Villena Solar Thermal Power Plant, located in the town of the same name in Alicante, has a capacity to produce 50 MWe using a solar field with parabolic trough collector (PTC) technology. The steam cycle cooling system consists of three cooling towers.

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | 1 minute Read
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Award finalist

Juan Miguel Serrano was a finalist for the Young Author Award at the 4th IFAC Conference on Advances in Proportional-Integral-Derivative Control, with a paper on the optimisation of the combined cooling system of the Solhycool project. This conference, supported by the International Federation of Automatic Control and the Spanish Committee of Automatics, was organised by the Automatics, Robotics and Mechatronics Group of the University of Almeria. This event is considered to be the conference with the greatest international cooperation between industry and academia, as it deals with advances in automatic control solutions based on PID control algorithms, which are implemented in one of their variants in more than 90% of industrial processes worldwide.

Friday, June 14, 2024 | 1 minute Read
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Solhycool at Transfiere

The Transfiere 2024 Forum brought together more than 500 companies and organisations from the R&D&I ecosystem to raise the visibility of the business fabric as a pillar of innovation from the private sector and with the support of public administrations. The Forum, which took place from 20 to 22 March at the FYCMA (Palacio de Ferias y Congresos of Málaga), is a joint initiative of the Ministry, the Department of Universities, Research and Innovation of the Regional Government of Andalusia and Málaga City Council.

Friday, March 22, 2024 | 1 minute Read
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VII Doctoral Conference on Computer Science

On the 23rd of February, Juan Miguel Serrano attended the VII Jornadas de Doctorado en Informática (7th Doctoral Conference in Computer Science), where he presented the objectives, methodology and research results of his doctoral thesis. During the conference, Juan Miguel presented the progress made in the modelling and optimisation of the combined refrigeration pilot plant of the Solhycool project. The VII Doctoral Conference in Computer Science of the University of Almeria (JDI2024@UAL) is an event that takes place within the framework of the Doctoral Programme in Computer Science of the UAL, whose main objective is to monitor the annual research of doctoral students, and at the same time serves as an annual meeting point for students, tutors, directors and members of the university community with common interests in scientific research in the field of Computer Science.

Friday, February 23, 2024 | 2 minutes Read