HyCool Training
Hello and welcome to this eLearning course on industrial solar heating and cooling!
We are happy to present you this topic within the framework of the AIT eLearning platform as an advanced training module. The contents was developed in the course of the EU-co-funded project "HyCool" within the European Union's H2020 programme Grant Agreement No. 792073.
In this course, we provide you with detailed information on two industrial solar heating and cooling demo systems that have been installed at the companies Bo De Debò and Givaudan near Barcelona in Spain in 2020/2021.
We explain the system concept as well as many details
on the key technologies: Fresnel solar thermal collector, latent heat storage
(PCM storage) and hybrid heat pump. The eLearning content counts with practical and
theoretical information, which we developed throughout the project. This will hopefully assist you in your own solar heating and cooling system that your are
planning or operating.
Please visit the HyCool Project Homepage for more details by clicking on this link
"HyCool - Industrial Cooling through Hybrid system based on solar heat" is a project co-funded by the European Union, related to the “LCE-12-2017 (IA): Near-to-market solutions for the use of solar heat in industrial processes” call, starting on May 2018 with a duration of 36 months and a budget of 7.74 M€.
Our main mission is increasing the current use of Solar Heat in Industry Processes, and to do so the project proposes the coupling of a new Fresnel CSP Solar thermal collectors (FCSP) system, an innovative latent heat storage system (PCM storage) and specially designed Hybrid Heat Pumps (HHP) (a “two-in one” combination of adsorption and compressor based heat pumps). With this combination, we can address a wide output temperature range (<300 °C solar collector and PCM storage) and a wide range of design and operational configurations to increase the potential implementation of the proposed Solar Heat in industrial environments.
The HyCool brochure provides an initial overview on the project goals, the SHC system, its key components, the demo site installations at Givaudan and Bo De Debo as well as the role of the differen project partners. Please study this document to get a first idea.
Introductory Video to HYCOOL Project
This video provides an overview of the Solar Cooling Systems developed within the HyCool European project.
