Sustainability, Volume 15, Issue 10
2023 May-2 - 701 articles
Cover Story: This paper investigated the use of solar thermal energy systems in SPIRE and non-SPIRE industries and reported that existing solar systems are primarily applied to lower-irradiance regions due to the limited operating temperature range of the current collectors, which particularly affects the SPIRE sector. In order to increase the use of solar energy in these sectors, an innovative solar thermal system was developed by the EU-ASTEP project, with the capability of achieving a temperature of up to 400 °C. The calculated technical potential of the ASTEP system in EU industrial processes was shown to be 43.5 TWh for the SPIRE sector and 37.7 TWh for the non-SPIRE sector, which reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 10.8 and 9.4 MtCO2e. Consequently, the novel solar thermal system has the potential to help industries in reaching their net-zero GHG emission targets by 2050. View this paper - Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
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