Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024
Time: 10:00 – 12:00 (CEST)
About this webinar:
In this second webinar of the RESTORE project, learn about the innovative RESTORE virtual tool designed to optimize and simulate the RESTORE system. Developed using SimTech’s advanced simulation tools, IPSEpro and IPSE GO, this tool allows for detailed virtual implementation of the RESTORE concept. A specialized model library, RESTORE_Lib, has been created to model individual components of the RESTORE system. This library includes models for both RESTORE key technologies: Thermochemical Energy Storage and the reversible Organic Rankine Cycle.
Six virtual Use-Cases have been defined for the project to demonstrate the capability of the RESTORE concept in scaled-up scenarios under different boundary conditions. In this webinar, we will present two of these virtual Use-Cases:
– Use-Case I: Brønderslev, Denmark – This case applies the RESTORE concept to an existing combined heat and power unit in Brønderslev, which includes a Concentrated Solar Power plant, a biomass-fired Organic Rankine Cycle power plant, and heat pumps.
– Use-Case VI: Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy – This case focuses on an existing small District Heating and Cooling network at the Politecnico di Milano campus, representative of small, decentralized solutions.
This webinar will offer insights into the specific conditions and potential integration of RESTORE technology into real-world plants using the RESTORE virtual tool. By enabling comprehensive system simulations, the tool highlights how RESTORE technology can contribute to decarbonizing the heating and cooling sector across various configurations.
Q/A Session: This webinar will include a 20-minute Q/A session and a recording of the webinar will be available on the RESTORE YouTube channel afterwards. The recording of the previous RESTORE-webinar is available here.
This webinar is organized and hosted by the Steinbeis Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Thermal Energy Systems Solites.
Speakers:
Markus Perz (SimTech GmbH)
Markus Perz is a Software Engineer at SimTech GmbH, where he leads the software development and product innovation for the IPSE GO platform. He earned his master’s degree in Computer Science from Graz University of Technology in 2023, specializing in Software Technology and IT Security. Prior to joining SimTech, Markus spent three years at AVL Graz, focusing on web technology development for the automotive industry. With his extensive experience in software development and distributed systems design, he is dedicated to advancing the IPSE GO platform, bringing cutting-edge process simulation tools into the era of cloud computing.
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Presentation: Introduction to the RESTORE Virtual Tool
Jan Holst Rothmann (Aalborg CSP)
Jan Holst Rothmann is a Marine Engineer with more than 17 years of experience within the Aalborg CSP organization, alone. Throughout the years he has been involved in a number of energy system projects and has carried out a wide variety of tasks, including project management, technical design, risk assessment, commissioning and service management within the project execution. Specifically, within the Brønderslev project, Jan Holst Rothmann was deeply involved in the technical design and control system, as well as integration of the CSP-plant into to the overall system. Moreover, he was in charge of the start-up and commissioning of the CSP Solar field and the control system philosophy for operation of the CSP plant together with the biomass fired boiler and ORC-system. Currently, he is involved in the service and commissioning phase of the ongoing energy plant projects within the Aalborg CSP portfolio in Denmark.
Presentation: RESTORE Use-Case I: Combining technologies at the Brønderslev district heating plant
Dario Alfani, Ph.D. (Politecnico di Milano)
Dr. Dario Alfani is an Assistant Professor in the Energy Department at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where he lectures on Renewable Energy for the master’s degree program in Energy Engineering and is a member of the Group of Energy COnversion Systems (GECOS). His research focuses on power systems using non-conventional power cycles, such as supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) and Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC), for renewable energy and waste heat recovery applications. He is also investigating innovative energy storage solutions based on thermodynamic cycles, such as Carnot batteries and Pumped Thermal Energy Storage. Dr. Alfani is actively involved in several national and international research projects, such as sCO2-Flex, CO2OLHEAT, EASYGO, Powder2Power, PRIN MUSIC, RESTORE, and SEHRENE, and currenlty leads the activities of the SolarPACES TCP Carnot Batteries working group.
Presentation: RESTORE Use-Case VI: Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Stefan Bergmann (SimTech GmbH)
Stefan Bergmann is a Senior Application Engineer at SimTech GmbH. After graduating in Chemical and Process Engineering at Graz University of Technology in 1998, he joined SimTech that same year. He is one of the main developers of IPSE’s data validation and reconciliation module PSValidate. With extensive experience in model library development, he contributed to all standard model libraries available for the IPSE GO and IPSEpro process simulation tools. Over the years, Stefan Bergmann has supported various clients by addressing their specific technical needs in analyzing and optimizing their processes. Regularly he has been an instructor for SimTech’s training courses and participated in several national and international research projects, including the European projects RESYSproDESAL and MIDES H2020.
Presentation: Modelling of the RESTORE Use-Cases
