Tratamiento térmico de materiales en el Horno Solar de la PSA: líneas actuales de actividad

Abstract

Concentrated solar energy gives controlled high flux density with a wide wavelength spectrum by means of solar furnaces, which design allows to attain very high heating rates and very high temperatures up to 3500 K. Solar furnaces are specially suitable for transformation or synthesis process, these installations are devoted to research in the fields of material characterization and treatment as well as chemical processes. During 2001, several test campaigns have been carried out in the Solar Furnace at the Plataforma Solar de Almeria in collaboration with different European research institutes, under the umbrella of the European Commission's Improving Human Potential Programme. Thus different lines of work have been launched demonstrating the feasibility and potential use of solar furnaces for such R&D field.