Annual Report 2006 - Plataforma Solar de Almería

PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA
Figure 3.20 Calibration of an IR detector in the laboratory.
• Calibration of high solar irradiance radiometers
• Calibration of mid-temperature IR sensors
A black body can be used as a source of thermal radiation for reference
and calibration of IR devices (infrared chambers and pyrometers) that use
thermal radiation as a means of determining the temperature of a certain surface.
It is also used as an irradiance reference for calibration of radiometers.
The Radiometry Laboratory has two reference black bodies. The MIKRON
M330 black body can provide any temperature between 300 and 1700ºC with
±0.25% accuracy and a resolution of 1ºC. Its emissivity is 0.99 in a 25-mmdiameter
aperture. The MIKRON M305 black body can also provide any temperature
between 100 and 1000ºC with the same accuracy and resolution. Its
emissivity is 0.995 in a 25-mm-diameter aperture. Both have a PID control
system and the temperature is checked by a high-precision platinum thermocouple.
Publications: [3.8][3.9][3.10][3.11][3.12][3.13][3.14][3.15][3.16][3.17]
3.4 Solar Fuels and Solarization of
Industrial Processes Group
Production of different energy vectors other than electricity that allow seasonal
storage and transport of solar energy, as well as integration in industrial
process that must be adapted to integrate the solar share in its most endothermic
stages, are emerging activities at the PSA coordinated by the Solar
Fuels and Solarization of Industrial Processes Group. In the first case related
to solar fuels, thermochemical hydrogen production is without doubt the process
where most effort has been concentrated. Recent interest in hydrogen as
an energy vector in the transportation industry and the doubtless attractiveness
of its clean production using solar energy have made the PSA give special
interest to adapting high-temperature solar concentrating technologies to
their application to mass production of hydrogen. The activity is covered by
two European projects, (INNOHYP and HYDROSOL), a project funded by the
PROFIT program (SOLTER-H), a project funded by the research program of
the Community of Madrid (PHISICO2) and a project with significant industrial
support from Petróleos de Venezuela (SYNPET). These projects are supplemented
by participation in two technological network initiatives on the subject,
one of them European called SUSHYPRO and the other international,
called THESIS, sponsored by the International Partnership for the Hydrogen
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