solar heat for industrial processes

March 4, 2017
Europe: The Way to a Shared SHIP Research and Innovation Agenda

Huge potential but little implementation so far – this is how one could describe the global situation of Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP). Although experts acknowledge that process heat shows the greatest potential of all solar heating and cooling applications, the share of SHIP...
March 2, 2015
“Very few countries have policies explicitly supporting renewable deployment in the industry sector”

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) published two technology briefs last week. The 40-page documents, one entitled Solar Heat for Industrial Processes, the other Solar Heating and Cooling for Residential Applications, give a brief global overview of the market and...
October 31, 2014
Non-Tracking Wide-Angle Concentrators for Industrial Process Heat (2014)

This presentation was presented at the 2014 UC Solar Research Symposium held in San Francisco at the University of California on 17 October 2014. The author of this Solar Heat for Industrial Processes Project is Professor Roland Winston, Director of the...
March 28, 2014
Worldwide: Initiators of Solar Process Heat Database Look to Add More Reference Projects

The middle of March saw the launch of the online database www.ship-plants.info, which has so far collected 122 projects using Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP). The database was created in the frame of...
February 9, 2012
Solar Heat for Industrital Process Technical Report. State of the Art in the Mediterranean Region

The objective of this technical report is to provide an overview of the state of the art of Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP), to describe the main technologies existing worldwide, particularly in the Mediterranean, and give recommendations aimed at supporting the spread of this...
September 28, 2011
Potential Market and Practical Experience with Solar Process Heat in Germany (2011)

This is a presentation made by Harald Drück during the International Conference on Process Heat of March 2011 in Austria. The presentation includes data about the use of solar heat for industrial processes (SHIP) in Germany with concrete examples of companies like Steinbach and Vollmann,...