SPECTRUM PROJECT

Solar PolygEneration Collector for
Combined heaT, poweR, hydrogen
fUel and wastewater treatMent

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The SPECTRUM project aims to create innovative solar technologies for industrial applications by conceiving, developing, prototyping and testing lab-scale prototypes of solar collectors that fully harness the solar spectrum by converting solar radiation into three renewable energy vectors (solar heat, solar electricity and green hydrogen) while performing industrial wastewater treatment.

DECARBONISATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR

SPECTRUM takes on the opportunity created by this challenge by developing and demonstrating the technological, environmental, social and economic feasibility of harnessing solar radiation and using wastewater to generate, in a single solar powered device.

MAXIMIZE THE LOCAL GENERATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY AT INDUSTRIAL SITES

SPECTRUM delivers a new concept of solar collector with optimised use of the solar spectrum, with increased power density in comparison with conventional solar collectors or PV panels, able to generate renewable heat, electricity and fuel in industrial sites or other artificialized surfaces.

INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND VALORISATION

SPECTRUM will boost the sustainability of industrial wastewater treatment, converting waste into a valuable solar fuel, through an efficient photocatalytic remediation process coupled with hydrogen cogeneration.

Currently no hybrid solar collector concept for combined generation of heat, electricity and H2 with industrial wastewater treatment has been presented, prototypes or tested at lab-scale. By the end of the SPECTRUM project two novel concepts of such hybrid collector will have been developed and labscale prototypes will have been tested to validate the technological concept and its technical feasibility.
Project Activities
SPECTRUM sustainability evaluation
Project coordination, management and quality assurance
Optimization of the photocatalytic process of wastewater treatment and hydrogen generation
Prototype development and testing
Integration of SPECTRUM collector in industrial processes
Polygenerating collector design and optimisation
Communication and exploitation of SPECTRUM results
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