The Management Committee chose to focus effort on research actions that are made possible only thanks the Labex. Meaning they increase the synergy between the members and they create benefit. Therefore, collaboration between the SOLSTICE members is reinforced.
RESEARCH DOMAINS AND ACTIONS
1. Efficient and low cost solar energy conversion processes
This strategic domain was developed in three main directions :
2. High temperature materials for energy conversion
A new research topic on selective materials was structured thanks to SOLSTICE in strong synergy with the SOCRATE Equipex. More generally, the Labex develops researches on high temperature materials to two main directions :
3. Solar fuels
The research priorities are :
4. Solar eco-technologies
Two topics are developed :
5. Optimization of solar systems
This research domain supports basic research on :
PHD THESIS
Emmanuel GIUDICELLI
Concentrated PhotoVoltaic (CPV) Application.
Victor POZZOBON
Biomass gasification under high solar heat flux
Aurélie ROSSET
Synthesis and characterization of catalytic nanoparticles for solar photocatalysis applications
Kuo ZENG
Solar pyrolysis of biomass at laboratory scale
Julien CHARON
Evaluation of radiative properties with Monte Carlo method for the optimization of solar processes
Thomas FASQUELLE
Experimental and numerical study of a thermocline thermal storage integrated in a parabolic trough micro power plant
Lucile BARKA
Study of the survivability of space debris during their atmospheric re-entry phase (oxidation, ablation, emissivity)
Nicolas LOPEZ-FERBER
Development of a modular high temperature air/ceramic thermal energy storage process and development of a waste-based ceramic usable in such system
Rui LI
Solar pyrolysis of agricultural by-products and metal-polluted biomass
Alexandre VAUTHELIN
Fabrication and study of antimonide-based solar cells for high solar concentration applications
Antoine GROSJEAN
Study, modeling and optimization of functional surfaces for concentrated solar thermal collectors
Jean-Marc AVELLANEDA
Thermodynamic optimization of Solar Receivers in presence of Turbulence
Inma PEREZ-LOPEZ
Fluid flow and heat transfer in tubular particle fluidized bed receiver
Asaad KEILANY
Experimental and modeling study of a thermocline latent/sensible heat storage system integrated with a cylindrical-parabolic concentrated solar power plant
Johan COLAS
Coated metallic materials for solar receivers
Clément LACROIX
Solar-driven thermo-hydraulic process for reverse osmosis desalination
Léa PENAZZI
Optimization of high temperature porous exchangers with a parameterized reduced model by a Symbolic Monte-Carlo method in 3D complex geometry
Pierre-Henri DEFIEUX
Hybrid optical method for characterizing a heliostat field in a concentrated solar power plant.
POST-DOCT
Jean PUIG
Carbothermal reduction of metallic oxides using concentrated solar energy for the production of solid fuel
Omar BEHAR
Simulation of high temperature hybrid solar tower concentrating systems
Gezahegn DESALEGN
Coupling of Plasmonic nanostructure to (Magnetic) Semiconductors: Control of Optical Properties for energy efficiency