Catch us at the Asia Pacific Solar Research Conference, 8 – 9 Dec 2015

We are pleased to announce that ASTRI’s Director, Dr Manuel Blanco, will deliver a plenary address on the opening day of this year’s Asia Pacific Solar Research Conference (APSRC) in Brisbane on the 8^th December. Manuel’s plenary will focused on “Advances in Concentrating Solar Thermal”.

Dr. Blanco will outline how lowering the cost of Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) technologies is a worldwide challenge that, when addressed, has broad and positive impacts for Australia.

ASTRI researchers also making presentations at the APSRC conference this year include keynote speakers:

Frank Bruno, Uni SA		A winner of this year’s Eureka prize, presenting on “Transitioning from low to high temperature PCM thermal storage”
Jin-Soo Kim, CSIRO		Presenting on “High temperature receiver design – overview of recent Australian activities”
James Hinkley, CSIRO		Presenting on “A Solar Fuels Roadmap for Australia – Project Outcomes”

Other ASTRI researchers presenting on their ASTRI research are:

Woei Saw, University of Adelaide		“Performance of Alternative Solid Particle Solar Receivers”
Alicia Bayon Sandoval, CSIRO		“Exploring Lithium Sulphate as a Low Cost Material for High Temperature Thermal Energy Storage”
Clotilde Corsi, CSIRO		“Far-Field Optimisation of Heliostat Shape and Spacings”
Charles-Alexis Asselineau, ANU		“Exergetic efficiency of point-focus concentrators using realistic flux distributions”
William Logie, ANU		“Temperature and heat flux distributions in sodium receiver tubes”
Alex Post, CSIRO		“Thermionics – a new approach to highly efficient solar energy conversion”
Yifeng Jiang, CSIRO		“Development of Li2CO3-Na2CO3 Phase Change Materials for Concentrating Solar Power Plants”