SOLAR PROCESSHEAT FOR EUROPE

摘要

Solar thermal systems have enormous potential to be used in industry. About 30% of total industrial heat demand is at temperature levels below 100℃, which can be provided with commercially available solar thermal collectors. However, the global and European markets are very much in their infancy; only a few hundred installations currently exist. Christiane Egger and Christine Ohlinger discuss the SO-PRO project, which aims to tackle these barriers and to trigger the startup of markets for solar process heat in six European regions,