SOLARSCO2OL Project

SOLARSCO2OL project, funded by EC Horizon2020 programme, will look into development and demonstration of critical components for facilitating the near-term deployment of cost-effective CSP plants using supercritical CO2 cycles as potential future key technology for more grid-flexible and not-using water plants. Over the next 48 months, the project will work towards the demonstration of a first-of-kind MW scale sCO2 cycle operating from molten salts in an existing CSP plant, for which a new MW-scale molten salt electric heater will also be developed. The 15-partner consortium is led by RINA Consulting and KTH, with participation from ESTELA, 3 other research centres (UNIGE, Ikerlan and CERTH), and 9 prominent industries from the CSP and turbomachinery sectors (Abengoa, Magtel, Masen, SEICO, Lointek, MAS Europe, Baker Hughes, Franco Tosi Meccanica, and OCMI OTG).