Newcline.

 

Developing CSP Storages with Kraftblock material.

A worker installing Kraftblock's high-temperature thermal energy storage system with a new developed material for molten salt storages used in CSP plants.

The Newcline project, funded by the EU with 1.7 million euros, is a European collaboration between Empresarios Agrupados, the German Aerospace Center, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the SPF Institute for Solar Technology and Kraftblock. The partners aim to significantly improve the technology for storing thermal energy from Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants.

Kraftblock has developed a new material for molten salt storages used in CSP plants to improve the economics and the charging and discharging process. The thermocline is the layer of temperature that is created when the storage tank is heated or cooled (charged or discharged).

Visit the projects website to explore the details: https://www.newcline.eu/

Logos of various organizations and programs collaborating on the Newcline project related to storing thermal energy from Concentrated Solar Power (CSP). Empresarios Agrupados, CTTC (Centre Tecnològic de Transferència de Calor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), SPF (Institute for Solar Technology), Clean Sky 2 and Horizon 2020, European Union Funding for Research & Innovation.
A rounded thermal energy storage unit being lifted by a crane during installation of the Newcline project prototype. Team members from the Newcline project in front of the developing construction system integration of TES concepts in commercial concentrated solar power plants. Internal view of the new energy storage material by Kraftblock for molten salt storages. Grid-like pattern of engineered, granulate material that makes up the core of the high-temperature thermal batteries.