Andalusian Capacities: FP7 ENERGY 2012 Calls

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1 Andalusian Capacities: FP7 ENERGY 2012 Calls

2 This document has been elaborated by the Centre of Innovation and Technology Transfer of Andalusia, CITAndalucía ( For additional information about the content of this document you may contact ENTERPRISE EUROPE NETWORK (CESEAND) Centro de Innovación y Transferencia de Tecnología de Andalucía, CITAndalucía Lourdes Valero Arbizu lourdes.valero@juntadeandalucia.es Avda. Isaac Newton nº4 Pabellón de Italia Isla de la Cartuja Sevilla (Spain) Lucía Díaz Martín lucia.diaz.martin@juntadeandalucia.es Avda. Isaac Newton nº4 Pabellón de Italia Isla de la Cartuja Sevilla (Spain) Seville, 5th September 2011

3 PREAMBLE This document has been conceived as a working document of the Andalusian node of the Enterprise Europe Network to promote and to foster the participation of Andalusian entities in the 7th Framework Programme. The purpose of this document is to summarize the potential of the Andalusian entities within the 2012 call of proposal of the Seventh Framework Programme in the Energy theme: FP7 ENERGY , FP7 ENERGY FP7 ENERGY SMARTCITIES 2012 FP NMP ENV ENERGY ICT EeB With this document, CITAndalucía pretends to reflect the interests and needs in research and development of Andalusian entities involved in this thematic field in order to help short term collaboration in FP7 projects. The document gathers what we have called Expressions of Interests (EoI) of several Andalusian entities in different topics funded under the calls for proposals FP7 ENERGY Each EoI includes a description of the Andalusian entity interested in the specific topic as well as the expertise and capacities that each entity offers to the specific topic. The structure of the document follows the structure of the Energy Work Programme in terms of areas and topics. Therefore EoIs are listed accordingly to the reference of each topic. 3

4 LIST OF CONTENTS ACTIVITY ENERGY.2: RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY GENERATION ENERGY : Reliable, cost effective, highly performing PV systems. CITIC Green Power Technologies. Irradia Ingeniería Solar... Teknia R&D SL ENERGY : Demonstration of smart multifunctional PV modules Irradia Ingeniería Solar... ENERGY : Innovative wind conversion systems (10 20MW) for offshore applications Green Power Technologies ENERGY : Research, development and testing of solar dish systems. Abengoa Solar New Technologies.. ENERGY : Hybridisation of CSP with other energy sources AICIA Group of Thermodynamics and Renewable Energy Azcatec Tecnología e Ingeniería... CITIC... CTAER (Centro Tecnológico Avanzado de Energías Renovables). UAL_ TEP 197 (socio) EOI.. ENERGY : Power generation in the low temperature range Azcatec Tecnología e Ingeniería. ACTIVITY ENERGY.3: RENEWABLE FUEL PRODUCTION ENERGY : Biofuels from microalgae or macroalgae Automatic Control, Electronic & Robotic, University of Almería... Azcatec Tecnología e Ingeniería. Fundación Innovarcilla (Andalusian Tech. Center for Ceramics).. Energy : Pre commercial industrial scale demonstration plant on lignocellulosic ethanol Azcatec Tecnología e Ingeniería

5 ACTIVITY ENERGY.4: RENEWABLES FOR HEATING AND COOLING ENERGY : Research and development for medium temperature range solar collectors ( C) Andaltec R&D Foundation Azcatec Tecnología e Ingeniería.... University of Almería, Automatic Control, Electronic & Robotic... ACTIVITY ENERGY.7: SMART ENERGY NETWORKS ENERGY : Integration of variable distributed resources in distribution networks Green Power Technologies.. Irradia Ingeniería Solar... Windinertia Technologies... ENERGY : Enhancing electricity networks through use of distributed intelligence. CITIC... Green Power Technologies. ENERGY : Empowering smart customers to participate in active demand and energy system efficiency. CITIC... Green Power Technologies. ENERGY : Support to the coordination of stakeholders activities in the field of Smart Grids CITIC... ACTIVITY ENERGY.8: ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND SAVINGS Energy : Strategic sustainable planning and screening of city plans Smart Cities and Communities Incubator MITRA Ingenieria Sostenible SLL... University of Almería, Automatic Control, Electronic & Robotic... ENERGY : Large scale systems for urban area heating and/or cooling supply. Cemosa. MITRA Ingenieria Sostenible SLL

6 ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS Public Private Partnership EeB.Energy : Demonstration of Zero Carbon Building Renovation for cities and districts AYESA... Cemosa Habitec. Ingeniería e Integración Avanzadas (Ingenia). MITRA Ingeniería Sostenible.. University of Córdoba... VORSEVI

7 Organization: Centro Andaluz de Innovación y Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (CITIC) Organization Contact Person Full Address Contact Details Centro Andaluz de Innovación y Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (CITIC) Vanessa van Rossum C/ Marie Curie, 6 PTA Postcode City Málaga Tel Fax vvanrossum@citic.es Web address Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Area or Topic of interest FP7 ENERGY Energy : Reliable, cost effective, highly performing PV systems Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) CITIC is a Technological Centre located in the South of Spain, recognized by the Regional Minister of Economy, Innovation and Science in Andalusia and the Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation. CITIC is focused on the development of ICT for enterprises and citizens of its environment, and applies it to several fields like ehealth, Security and Trust, Computational Models, Wireless and Mobile Communications and interactive Digital Television. CITIC has its own Technology Transfer Office (TTO) that interacts with enterprises, Universities and entities interested in the results of the finished projects, and is continuously looking for new opportunities of valuable collaboration with entities around the world. Expertise offered (related to the topic) The center's experience in relation to this topic: Plamsi Pilot Project (Experience in Managing Wireless Sensor Networks) * Experience in software architectures for the integration of Wireless Sensor technologies based on OSGi. * Experience in OSGi architectural design targeted towards usability requirements from the perspective of end users. * Experience in the integration of different home automation technologies and "smart houses" environments (TinyOS motes, Zigbee Devices, KNX, Bluetooth). * All of our designs aim to be manageable for any type of user, regardless their level of knowledge; the use of these architectures is easy and intuitive without requiring technical or specialized people. 7

8 * The core of our sensor management software is developed in OSGi, therefore this architectural design is service oriented, being easy to include new services as web in multiple platforms (PC, mobiles, TV â ). PUEDeS Project (Experience in Managing different home automation technologies) * Wide knowledge of different technological standards existing in various fields like; management (KNX, ZigBee), leisure and entertainment and communications. * Development of a platform based on OSGi architecture able to manage, in a common way, different home automation standard technologies. Currently ZigBee and KNX are under control. Provides the ability to manage new and different technologies. GAD Project (Experience in application of technologies for energy efficiency) * Experience in active management of demand, through the use of home automation technologies. * Wide knowledge of technologies in this field. * Experience in the architecture of the system and software for communication within the home. Techno Cai Project (Experience in Energy Efficiency Algorithms) * Intelligent systems based on distributed computing (multi agent systems) to manage comfort and energy efficiency within buildings. * Decision making algorithms in terms of energy efficiency, comfort and pollution. CITIC's multidisciplinary team is capable of providing high level consultancy and research, specialized in diverse technologies within each of CITIC's areas of development: * Distributed computing and high availability systems. Development of applications for OpenMosix clusters; optimization of Sun Grid Engine for Linux low memory nodes; study of the use of distributed files systems for grid construction; implementation of grid integrated algorithms applied to biocomputing under GPU. * Architectures based on grid computing, cloud computing and virtualization. These works and research are directly applicable in the business and scientific environments, greatly optimizing the resources necessary in organizations and increasing the efficiency with which they are used. * Information systems. Network and server management; database management; CMS (Content Management System) and CRM (Client Relationship Management). Through the different projects that we have developed during the past years we have acquired wide experience in: Large database management, Digital storage, Data integration, Data mining, Large databases, Multichannel communications, Security, Encryption, Communications, Heterogeneous information, Sensible personal data protection, Intelligent data analysis, Distributed data, Heterogeneous databases management, Real time data access, etc. Previous FP experience Yes (If yes, please indicate project acronyms: ) X No I agree to the publication of my data. 8

9 Organization: GREEN POWER TECHNOLOGIES S.L. Organization Contact Person Full Address Contact Details GREEN POWER TECHNOLOGIES S.L. Rosa Rumí Palomo Av. de Camas 28, PIBO, Bollullos de la Mitación, Sevilla, SPAIN Postcode City Bollullos de la Mitación, Sevilla Tel Fax Web address Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Area or Topic of interest FP7 ENERGY Energy Reliable, cost effective, highly performing PV systems Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) GPtech was founded in 2002 as spin off from the Seville University Electronic Engineering Department. Technology based company applying power electronics in the environmental and renewable energy sector as well as in the military and aeronautical sector. Nowadays the organization is an engineering company also offering turnkey services especially in the commissioning of renewable energy power plants. Our Research + Development department constantly works in projects at the forefront of technology. 40% of our staff is engineers from the Electric Engineering Department of Seville University. Working all together, clients such as ENDESA, GAMESA, ISOLUX, ABENGOA trust in Green Power. GPtech has developed several European projects (fp6 & fp7) related to smart energy systems, new battery concepts and battery managements and different energy generation integrations: electric vehicles, distributed energy, large generation plants, etc. Examples: MOTOR BRAIN (based in new motor topologies for electric vehicles), POWAIR (a new battery concept, Zinc air), POLLUX (embedded systems for electric vehicles). Expertise offered (related to the topic) In Photovoltaic sector, more than 200 MW of photovoltaic energy are injected into the grid thanks to our POWER PV inverter technology. Our PV Serie covers power ranges between 5 kw and 1 MW. GPtech has also developed customized solutions for remote monitoring systems. The monitoring and equipment control software includes harmonics and total 9

10 harmonic distortions calculation, power factor and apparent, active and reactive power representation, voltages, grid current and homopolar component representation It contains also internal system variables representation by software oscilloscope and historical records generation. It is also of vital interest to overcome the difficulty to localize panel shadows at PV power plants. These panel shadows might cause great output power losses. Therefore, GPtech. Developed a string monitoring box as an efficient and economic photovoltaic facilities support system. Previous FP experience Yes (If yes, please indicate project acronyms: WaveStar (Energy FP6) Pollux and IoE (Artemis FP7) MotorBrain (ENIAC FP7) Powair (Energy, FP7). No I agree to the publication of my data. 10

11 Organization: Irradia Ingeniería Solar Contact Details Organization Irradia Ingeniería Solar Contact Person Alejandro Quijano Losada; Bartolome Malo Aragón Full Address Avenida de la Constitución 27 1 ºD Postcode City Sevilla Tel Fax alejandro.quijano@irradia energia.com; bartolome.malo@irradiaenergia.com Web address irradiaenergia.com Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Area or Topic of interest FP7 ENERGY ENERGY : Reliable, cost effective, highly performing PV systems Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) The three main areas of work are: Photovoltaic project developer; Photovoltaic Project Engineering; Photovoltaic plant maintenance. We have developed or participated in four R&D projects: Architectural integration of PV systems in buildings; Development of a device to inverters; Control Center for photovoltaic plants; Cleaning of solar modules Expertise offered (related to the topic) Energy radiates maintains and operates 200 photovoltaic plants. Irradia Energía offers expertise in project development of photovoltaic plants and accumulated knowledge in exploiting them. It also offers its photovoltaic installations as test bed for development and implementing different solutions. Previous FP experience Yes (If yes, please indicate project acronyms: ) No I agree to the publication of my data. 11

12 Organization: Teknia R&D, S.L. Contact Details Organization Teknia R&D, S.L. Contact Person Patricia Silva de la Calle Full Address Avda. Principal Ampliación Pol. Ind. Cañada de la Fuente, s/n Postcode City Martos Tel Fax Web address Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Area or Topic of interest FP7 ENERGY ENERGY : Reliable, cost effective, highly performing PV systems Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) Teknia R&D, S.L. was born in 2009 as a new Spanish branch of Teknia Manufacturing Group. It has an independent structure with a specialized team with experience and creativity since The main target is to give support to automotive (OEMs, TIER 1s) and solar industry companies, as well as to the Teknia Manufacturing Group, applying our know how inside automotive and solar industry and offering our customers comprehensive and innovative added values. The service offering include product and process design, project management, feasibility studies, analysis, testing, FMA/CAE simulation and prototyping in plastic and metal technologies; ensuring the quality and the lowest manufacturing costs. Some of our products for automotive industry are pedal set, cross car beam, head rest, arm rest, reinforced plastic structure and light aluminum structure. For energy industry, our services are mainly for CPV systems, including components and mechanical structure/frame. Expertise offered (related to the topic) Teknia R&D, coming from the long experience in the automotive lighting industry, would collaborate in the proposal by mechanical design and manufacturing of the different components and whole CPV module assembly according to European 12

13 regulations in order to improve the solar cells and modules efficiency. Moreover, it would carry on applicable materials study for products and process, as well as process design and automation for reducing manufacturing cost. In addition, Teknia R&D has capacity for prototyping and testing which would combine mechanical and electrical characterization and product approval (IEC62108, etc). Its capacities are: CATIA V5 and AutoCAD workstations. Development engineers in the R&D offices for new products, concept development, analysis, simulation, testing, etc. Additional engineers at all production plants of Teknia Automotive and Teknia Energy for process and key product development Teknia R&D has been involved in several Spanish projects related with solar cells and modules where has performed design, analysis, manufacturing and approval for the CPV modules. Furthermore, it has developed feasibility studies for manufacturing CPV optics by injection. Emphatically on PSE Sigmasoles and PSE Integrauto projects which has been funded by FEDER funds. Finally, we are taking part in DAPHNE project which is being evaluated by European Commission at present. Previous FP experience Yes (If yes, please indicate project acronyms: DAPHNE No I agree to the publication of my data. 13

14 Organization: Irradia Ingeniería Solar Contact Details Organization Irradia Ingeniería Solar Contact Person Alejandro Quijano Losada; Bartolome Malo Aragón Full Address Avenida de la Constitución 27 1 ºD Postcode City Sevilla Tel Fax alejandro.quijano@irradia energia.com; bartolome.malo@irradiaenergia.com Web address irradiaenergia.com Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Area or Topic of interest FP7 ENERGY ENERGY : Demostration of smart multifunional PV modules Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) The three main areas of work are: Photovoltaic project developer; Photovoltaic Project Engineering; Photovoltaic plant maintenance. We have developed or participated in four R&D projects: Architectural integration of PV systems in buildings; Development of a device to inverters; Control Center for photovoltaic plants; Cleaning of solar modules Expertise offered (related to the topic) Energy radiates maintains and operates 200 photovoltaic plants. Irradia Energía offers expertise in project development of photovoltaic plants and accumulated knowledge in exploiting them. It also offers its photovoltaic installations as test bed for development and implementing different solutions. Previous FP experience Yes (If yes, please indicate project acronyms: ) No I agree to the publication of my data. 14

15 Organization: GREEN POWER TECHNOLOGIES S.L. Organization Contact Person Full Address Contact Details GREEN POWER TECHNOLOGIES S.L. Rosa Rumí Palomo Av. de Camas 28, PIBO, Bollullos de la Mitación, Sevilla, SPAIN Postcode City Bollullos de la Mitación, Sevilla Tel Fax Web address Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Area or Topic of interest FP7 ENERGY Energy Innovative wind conversion systems (10 20MW) for offshore applications. Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) GPtech was founded in 2002 as spin off from the Seville University Electronic Engineering Department. Technology based company applying power electronics in the environmental and renewable energy sector as well as in the military and aeronautical sector. Nowadays the organization is an engineering company also offering turnkey services especially in the commissioning of renewable energy power plants. Our Research + Development department constantly works in projects at the forefront of technology. 40% of our staff is engineers from the Electric Engineering Department of Seville University. Working all together, clients such as ENDESA, GAMESA, ISOLUX, ABENGOA trust in Green Power. GPtech has developed several European projects (fp6 & fp7) related to smart energy systems, new battery concepts and battery managements and different energy generation integrations: electric vehicles, distributed energy, large generation plants, etc. Examples: MOTOR BRAIN (based in new motor topologies for electric vehicles), POWAIR (a new battery concept, Zinc air), POLLUX (embedded systems for electric vehicles). Since 2003 more than 500 SAC DSP systems were supplied and set in operation in 15

16 Expertise offered (related to the topic) Made S800 wind turbines. In 2008 and 2009 more than 800 Voltage Sag Compensators for Wind Turbines were produced and supplied, pioneer product in Spain. Previous FP experience Yes No (If yes, please indicate project acronyms: WaveStar (Energy FP6), Pollux and IoE (Artemis FP7), MotorBrain (ENIAC FP7), Powair (Energy, FP7). I agree to the publication of my data. 16

17 Ç Organization: Abengoa Solar New Technologies, S.A. Contact Details Organization Abengoa Solar New Technologies S.A. Contact Person María J. Yusty López de Meneses Full Address CTPA Campus Palmas Altas Abengoa Parcela ZE3 Postcode City Sevilla Tel Fax Web address Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Area or Topic of interest FP7 ENERGY Energy Research, Development and Testing of Solar Dish Systems Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) Abengoa Solar develops and applies Solar Technologies to combat climate change and assure a sustainable development through all Solar Technologies, from Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) to Photovoltaics (PV) developed by the Company. At Abengoa Solar New Technologies, we focus our activities on the research and development of solar technology. At Abengoa Solar, we annually invest large resources on R&D, with an investment of around 42 M in the last two years. We currently focus our effort in proprietary R&D projects and in collaboration with several Research Institutions and Universities. Within the CSP area, our company emphasizes our efforts on tower, trough, Stirling dishes, and storage and biomass hybridization. Within the photovoltaic area, the working groups deal with thin film, photovoltaic concentration at an optical and high efficiency cells level. Expertise offered (related to the topic) ASNT is actually commercializing troughs and central receiver systems plants with a mature technology, and has also a strong line of work focused in Stirling technology in their R&D department. Abengoa started being involved within the DS technology taking part in the construction of the concentrator of EuroDish EC Joule 3 project. In 2007, before Solo went into insolvency, Abengoa developed its own concentrator and installed a pilot plant called AZTH based upon the Solo v161 and consisting of 17

18 eight 9 kw Stirling dishes. The target of the facility was learning by testing of precommercial engines as reference systems and compare and evaluate production and costs key figures with respect to tower, PV and parabolic trough technologies. The final price of the system and the efficiency of the concentrator were not improved compared to Eurodish. Nowadays Abengoa Solar is working in the development of a kinematic Stirling engine of 10 kwe within the Consolida project, with the collaboration of several enterprises, universities and research centers of Spain. The objectif of this project is to solve the problems that these kinds of engines suffer today, in terms of reliability. The estimated date for the end of Consolida project is December Previous FP experience Yes No (If yes, please indicate project acronyms: SOLUGAS) I agree to the publication of my data. 18

19 Organization: AICIA Group of Thermodynamics and Renewable Energy (GTER) Organization Contact Person Full Address Contact Details AICIA Group of Thermodynamics and Renewable Energy (GTER) Irene Ordóñez Barreiro Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n Postcode City Sevilla Tel Fax Web address Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Area or Topic of interest FP7 ENERGY Energy : Hybridization of CSP with other energy sources Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) The Research Group of Thermodynamics and Renewable Energy (GTER) is an university research group which activities are focused in the field of solar energy. GTER was established in 1981 by Valeriano Ruiz Hernandez, Professor of the Seville Superior Engineering School, University of Seville. The research group has been involved in several R+D projects: Colon Solar (Thermie Program of the European Commission), SOLGAS (APAS Program of the European Commission), SIREC (R+D National Plan, Feder Funds), PS10 (V Frame Program EU), EUDEEP (VI Frame Program EU) and Cenit Consolida among others. Furthermore, GTER provides services of technical assistance and prepares reports and assessments for a number of regional, national, and international institutions in specific areas related to its activity. The group is made up of three PhD, six master degree and three interns. GTER focus its activities in the following areas: Solar radiation, total and spectral; solar resource evaluation and estimation; monitoring and evaluation of radiometric station data. Solar thermoelectric plants; potential assessment; development of simulation models; operation and maintenance of a parabolic dish system with Stirling engine. Tests bench for low temperature equipment; equipment certification; estimation of the principal parameters. Energy assessments of photovoltaic modules and systems. Distributed energy resources. 19

20 Expertise offered (related to the topic) GTER participates in different research projects on hybridization of solar thermal power plants with other energy resources (i.e.: biomass and fossil fuels). Other previous experiences consisted in the participation in a consortium for the design of a hybrid combined cycle power plant with central receiver (Colón Solar project) or the conceptual design and assessment of different hybrid configurations for central receiver plants in the SIREC Project. In the field of parabolic dishes, GTER collaborated with DLR in a proposal for hybrid operation, named Hypower, which was presented in an international program with the aim to develop a solar hybrid generation system for decentralized rural electrification. Along this experience, besides the knowledge gained regarding components, plant configuration, operation strategies and plant optimization in general, GTER has developed specific software for simulating the behavior of hybrid CSP plants. Moreover a number of academic projects have been carried out in this area, as well as different articles for SolarPACES symposium. In this context, the objective we would like to achieve with this topic is a comprehensive hybridization analysis of each technology (parabolic trough, central receiver and parabolic dishes) in order to generate a full project, which could conclude with the construction of pilot plants for tests and model validation. The final goal of the proposal would be the hybridization feasibility assessment and, if possible, the transfer to the market of the hybrid CSP plants to make technology efficient and competitive. Previous FP experience Yes (If yes, please indicate project acronyms: ) No EUDEEP, PS10, Colón Solar, Solgas, EUFRAT, APAS RENA CT 0064, PV Venetian Store, etc. I agree to the publication of my data. 20

21 Organization: AZCATEC TECNOLOGIA E INGENIERIA SL Contact Details Organization AZCATEC TECNOLOGIA E INGENIERIA SL Contact Person Daniel Garcia Sevilla Full Address C/ Historiador Juan Manzano, 2 mod 127 Postcode City Montequinto (Seville) Tel Fax dgarcia@azcatec.com Web address Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Area or Topic of interest FP7 ENERGY ENERGY : Hybridisation of CSP with other energy source Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) The Company have proved experience after over than 20 years developing projects. We have executed more than 200 industrial and chemical projects, energy and environmental plants with different companies. The Company has developed a very high level of expertise in the implementation of engineering project, including energy plant design and construction, feasibility studies, etc. With this on the ground experience, we understand the necessary requirements of getting from Pilot to Demonstration to Market phases, the know how, practicalities, logistics and legalities of implementing innovative technologies. Expertise offered (related to the topic) AZCATEC is a technological SME founded in 1997, focused in design engineering with own research in energy topics. AZCATEC main value is the expertise in development and demonstration activities, from conceptual design to start up, especially in environmental and energy projects. We have cooperated developing the largest CSP and tower solar plants in South Spain with the most important energy firms and now we are participating in works supervision. In the lasts years we are collaborating in various biomass power plants and gas cogeneration implementation, developing the complete technical and economic feasibility studies including gasification technologies and others under study with Scandinavian and Latin American partners so that we are capable of combining technologies for hybridization. Along 20 years of existence we have cultivated contacts with key industrial actors both large companies, public, suppliers and research groups related to energy and 21

22 environmental industry. Expertise Services: Basic, process and detailed engineering Equipment design Develop of pilot plants Purchases and Project Management Facilities and utilities for industrial plants Works supervision (equipments, works, facilities, instrumentation, etc) Solar thermal electrics power plants participated: Name Power (Location) Owner Technology PS20 20 MW (Sevilla) ABENGOA SOLAR Central Tower La Risca 50 MW (Badajoz) ACCIONA Cylinder parabolic Solnova 1 50 MW (Sevilla) ABENGOA SOLAR Cylinder parabolic Puerto Errado II 1.4 MW (Murcia) NOVATEC Fresnel collector Solaben 400 MW (Caceres) ABENGOA SOLAR Cylinder parabolic Aste 1A 230 MW (Ciudad Real) ELECNOR Cylinder parabolic Own R&D activities (funds of Andalusian Innovation & Development Agency) STIGE. Telemetry Intelligent System for Energy Management. On line management tool to allows optimizing resources, maintenance, consuming and detection of faults in the measuring equipment. It also management and control of billing independently of electricity companies. ILIOS. CSP Modular Development for industrial applications. Catalog of potential applications for low and medium temperature in small industries applications; design of process and feasibility for the most interesting applications detected. Member of Technological Platforms & Associations: Environmental Technologies Platform ( planeta.es) Spanish Biomass Technological Platform ( Solar Concentra ( Andalusian Association for Research & Industrial Cooperation ( Industrial Engineers Professional Association for Western Andalusia ( Energy Technicians in Andalusia Association ( Previous FP experience Yes (If yes, please indicate project acronyms: ) No I agree to the publication of my data. 22

23 Organization: Centro Andaluz de Innovación y Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (CITIC) Organization Contact Person Full Address CITCI Vanessa van Rossum C/ Marie Curie, 6 PTA Contact Details Postcode City Málaga Tel Fax vvanrossum@citic.es Web address Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Area or Topic of interest FP7 ENERGY Energy Hybridisation of CSP with other energy sources Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) CITIC is a Technological Centre located in the South of Spain, recognized by the Regional Minister of Economy, Innovation and Science in Andalusia and the Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation. CITIC is focused on the development of ICT for enterprises and citizens of its environment, and applies it to several fields like ehealth, Security and Trust, Computational Models, Wireless and Mobile Communications and interactive Digital Television. CITIC has its own Technology Transfer Office (TTO) that interacts with enterprises, Universities and entities interested in the results of the finished projects, and is continuously looking for new opportunities of valuable collaboration with entities around the world. Expertise offered (related to the topic) The center's experience in relation to this topic: Plamsi Pilot Project (Experience in Managing Wireless Sensor Networks) * Experience in software architectures for the integration of Wireless Sensor technologies based on OSGi. * Experience in OSGi architectural design targeted towards usability requirements from the perspective of end users. * Experience in the integration of different home automation technologies and "smart houses" environments (TinyOS motes, Zigbee Devices, KNX, Bluetooth). * All of our designs aim to be manageable for any type of user, regardless their level of knowledge; the use of these architectures is easy and intuitive without requiring technical or specialized people. * The core of our sensor management software is developed in OSGi, therefore 23

24 this architectural design is service oriented, being easy to include new services as web in multiple platforms (PC, mobiles, TV â ). PUEDeS Project (Experience in Managing different home automation technologies) * Wide knowledge of different technological standards existing in various fields like; management (KNX, ZigBee), leisure and entertainment and communications. * Development of a platform based on OSGi architecture able to manage, in a common way, different home automation standard technologies. Currently ZigBee and KNX are under control. Provides the ability to manage new and different technologies. GAD Project (Experience in application of technologies for energy efficiency) * Experience in active management of demand, through the use of home automation technologies. * Wide knowledge of technologies in this field. * Experience in the architecture of the system and software for communication within the home. Techno Cai Project (Experience in Energy Efficiency Algorithms) * Intelligent systems based on distributed computing (multi agent systems) to manage comfort and energy efficiency within buildings. * Decision making algorithms in terms of energy efficiency, comfort and pollution. CITIC's multidisciplinary team is capable of providing high level consultancy and research, specialized in diverse technologies within each of CITIC's areas of development: * Distributed computing and high availability systems. Development of applications for OpenMosix clusters; optimization of Sun Grid Engine for Linux low memory nodes; study of the use of distributed files systems for grid construction; implementation of grid integrated algorithms applied to biocomputing under GPU. * Architectures based on grid computing, cloud computing and virtualization. These works and research are directly applicable in the business and scientific environments, greatly optimizing the resources necessary in organizations and increasing the efficiency with which they are used. * Information systems. Network and server management; database management; CMS (Content Management System) and CRM (Client Relationship Management). Through the different projects that we have developed during the past years we have acquired wide experience in: Large database management, Digital storage, Data integration, Data mining, Large databases, Multichannel communications, Security, Encryption, Communications, Heterogeneous information, Sensible personal data protection, Intelligent data analysis, Distributed data, Heterogeneous databases management, Real time data access, etc. Previous FP experience Yes (If yes, please indicate project acronyms: ) X No I agree to the publication of my data. 24

25 Organization: CTAER (Centro Tecnológico Avanzado de Energías Renovables) Organization Contact Person Full Address Contact Details CTAER (Centro Tecnológico Avanzado de Energías Renovables) Guadalupe Pinna Hernández Paraje los Retamares S/N (Tabernas) Postcode City Almería Tel Fax Web address Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Area or Topic of interest FP ENERGY ENERGY Hybridisation of CSP with other energy sources Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) CTAER is a techonology centre dedicated to the development of renewable energy technology; focusing on the solar, wind and biomass resources. It carries out projects mainly aimed at improving the performance and cost efficiency of technologies used in relation to these energy resources CTAER typology projects are test facilities for external clients, demonstration projects for industrial initiatives in our sectors, collaboration in external projects, Internal R&D&i projects for future collaborations, certification services for components, systems, materials, etc., research studies, consulting and training in renewable energy. Expertise offered (related to the topic) CTAER is carrying out tasks around the hybridization systems between solar and biomass energy with a innovation technology, biomass gasification. So the entity can collaborate in the project doing the following tasks: Conceptual analysis of different concepts of hybrid plants Modeling the behavior of a solar reception system Modeling the behavior of a real gasifier fed by bio mass Modeling the behavior of power system bringing together both technologies Developing an empirical economic model which allows checking with precision the profitability of hybridized plants Developing the basic engineering of a demonstration pilot plant about the simulated technology 25

26 Previous FP experience Yes (If yes, please indicate project acronyms: ) No I agree to the publication of my data. 26

27 Organization: Automatic Control, Electronic & Robotic (TEP 197) University of Almería (Spain) Contact Details Organization Automatic Control, Electronic & Robotic (TEP 197) University of Almería Contact Person Manuel Berenguel Soria Full Address Dpto. Lenguajes y Computación, Universidad de Almería Crta. Sacramento, S/N, E 04120, Almería (SPAIN) Postcode E City Almería Tel Fax beren@ual.es Web address Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Expertise offered (related to the topic) Area or Topic of interest FP7 ENERGY Energy Hybridisation of CSP with other energy sources Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) This Group is made up of 28 researchers (13 doctors and 15 Phd students) and is dedicated to the automatics and robotics applied to agriculture, renewable energies, and building automation. Its research lines are the following: Modeling and control of dynamic systems. Manipulation and mobile robotics. Hybrid, robust, predictive, hierarchical, and multiobjective process control. Automation of industrial systems. Industrial instrumentation. Group members have participated in 102 projects R&D divided into 9 international and 93 nationals; 28 contracts with companies related to their research priorities, which have led to a series of scientific and technical publications: one international book, 15 books national, 22 international book chapters, 7 national book chapters, 144 articles in international journals and 17 national interests and 390 conferences, 10 patents, and 24 Phd thesis. Our experiences deals with the development of models of thermal storage systems and their integration in the management of the thermosolar plants production, as well as the integration of different sources of energy (mainly solar and biomass) in energy production (both in thermosolar plants and greenhouses). The group has a strong collaboration with the Plataforma Solar de Almería (South East Spain). This experimental facility belongs to the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT) and is the largest European center for research, development and testing of concentrating solar technologies. There is also a great collaboration with Fundación Cajamar, in the field of 27

28 greenhouse crop production and energy management. The previous experience can be seen in the following publications and references therein: E.F. Camacho, M. Berenguel, F.R. Rubio. Advanced control of solar plants. Springer, E.F. Camacho, M. Berenguel, F.R. Rubio, D. Martínez. Control of solar energy systems. Springer, in press. E.F. Camacho, F.R. Rubio, M. Berenguel, L. Valenzuela. A survey on control schemes for distributed solar collector fields. Part I: Modeling and basic control approaches Part II: Advanced control approaches. Solar Energy, 81, , M.R. Arahal, C.M. Cirre, M. Berenguel. Serial grey box model of a stratified thermal tank for hierarchical control of a solar plant. Solar Energy, 82, , Previous FP experience Yes No (If yes, please indicate project acronyms: DAMOCIA, FUTUREFARM) I agree to the publication of my data. 28

29 Organization: AZCATEC TECNOLOGIA E INGENIERIA SL Contact Details Organization AZCATEC TECNOLOGIA E INGENIERIA SL Contact Person Daniel Garcia Sevilla Full Address C/ Historiador Juan Manzano, 2 mod 127 Postcode City Montequinto (Seville) Tel Fax dgarcia@azcatec.com Web address Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Area or Topic of interest FP7 ENERGY ENERGY : Power generation in the low temperature range Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) The Company have proved experience after over than 20 years developing projects. We have executed more than 200 industrial and chemical projects, energy and environmental plants with different companies. The Company has developed a very high level of expertise in the implementation of engineering project, including energy plant design and construction, feasibility studies, etc. With this on the ground experience, we understand the necessary requirements of getting from Pilot to Demonstration to Market phases, the know how, practicalities, logistics and legalities of implementing innovative technologies. Expertise offered (related to the topic) AZCATEC is a technological SME founded in 1997, focused in design engineering with own research in energy topics. AZCATEC main value is the expertise in development and demonstration activities, from conceptual design to start up, especially in environmental and energy projects. Thanks our previous experience we are a key partner in the lasts phases of pilot plant develop and demonstration activities. We have cooperated developing (conception, design, engineering, and work supervision) many different plants, for example CSP and tower solar, biomass power, water treatment plants, etc. In the lasts years we are collaborating in various biomass power plants and gas cogeneration implementation, developing the complete technical and economic feasibility studies including gasification technologies and others under study with Scandinavian and Latin American partners so that we are capable of combining technologies for hybridization. 29

30 Along 20 years of existence we have cultivated contacts with key industrial actors both large companies, public, suppliers and research groups related to energy and environmental industry. Expertise Services: Basic, process and detailed engineering Equipment design Develop of pilot plants Purchases and Project Management Facilities and utilities for industrial plants Works supervision (equipments, works, facilities, instrumentation, etc) Biotechnology (energy, biomass and waste treatment applications) Any plants developed: Name Location Owner Technology Calañas Huelva GROWING Biomass power Marpol Cadiz NAVANTIA Marpol waste treatment Kustagroup Huelva MP Industrial water waste treatment PPT CLC Sevilla HW Mine water waster treatment PS20 Sevilla ABENGOA SOLAR CSP La Risca Badajoz ACCIONA CSP Biosur Huelva BIOSUR BIODIESEL Biofuel production Own R&D activities (funds of Andalusian Innovation & Development Agency) STIGE. Telemetry Intelligent System for Energy Management. On line management tool to allow optimizing resources, maintenance, consuming and detection of faults in the measuring equipment. It also management and control of billing independently of electricity companies. ILIOS. CSP Modular Development for industrial applications. Catalog of potential applications for low and medium temperature in small industries applications; design of process and feasibility for the most interesting applications detected and pilot plant design. Member of Technological Platforms & Associations: Environmental Technologies Platform ( planeta.es) Spanish Biomass Technological Platform ( Solar Concentra ( Andalusian Association for Research & Industrial Cooperation ( Industrial Engineers Professional Association for Western Andalusia ( Energy Technicians in Andalusia Association ( Previous FP experience Yes (If yes, please indicate project acronyms: ) No I agree to the publication of my data. 30

31 Organization: Automatic Control, Electronic & Robotic (TEP 197) University of Almería (Spain) Contact Details Organization University of Almería, Automatic Control, Electronic & Robotic (TEP 197) Contact Person Manuel Berenguel Soria Full Address Dpto. Lenguajes y Computación, Universidad de Almería Crta. Sacramento, S/N, E 04120, Almería (SPAIN) Postcode E City Almería Tel Fax beren@ual.es Web address P197 Call identifier Topic (as stated in the Work Programme) Role in the project Type of organization Entity profile Area or Topic of interest FP7 ENERGY Energy : Biofuels from microalgae or macroalgae Profile of Partner(s) Offered Research Training Tech. development Management Dissemination Demonstration Other: University Research Organization SME Other: Enterprise (non SME) This Group is made up of 28 researchers (13 doctors and 15 Phd students) and is dedicated to the automatics and robotics applied to agriculture, renewable energies, and building automation. Its research lines are the following: Modeling and control of dynamic systems. Manipulation and mobile robotics. Hybrid, robust, predictive, hierarchical, and multiobjetive process control. Automation of industrial systems. Industrial instrumentation. Group members have participated in 102 projects R&D divided into 9 international and 93 nationals; 28 contracts with companies related to their research priorities, which have led to a series of scientific and technical publications: one international book, 15 books national, 22 international book chapters, 7 national book chapters, 144 articles in international journals and 17 national interests and 390 conferences, 10 patents, and 24 Phd thesis. Expertise offered (related to the topic) Our experiences deal with the analysis, study and applications of modelling, control and optimization strategies in the framework of model based predictive control (MPC) and event based control (EBC) to achieve efficient microalgae biomass production in large scale photobiorreactors. This control problem is composed of different control levels because depending of the final use of the resulting biomass 31