Socrates: SOlar Calcium-looping integRAtion for Thermo-Chemical Energy Storage. Energy storage is one of the the greatest challenges for a short-term deeper penetation of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants, which are usually characterized by the intermittent power production. SOCRATCES aims to demonstrating the feasibility of the CSP-CaL integration by erecting a pilot-scale plant that uses cheap, abundant and non-toxic materials as well as mature technologies used in the industry, such as fluidized bed reactor, cyclones or gas-solid heat exchangers. The global objective is to develop a prototype that will reduce the core risks of scaling up the technology and solve challenges.

Poroject Lead: Universidad de Sevilla

Region: Europe

Country: Spain

City/Town: Sevilla

Timeline Start - End: 2018-01-01 - 2020-12-31

Project Status: Completed

Project Budget: 4975402.5 €

Funding source: 100% H2020

Website: https://socratces.eu/

Activities:

- Complete value chain demonstration

- CCU

CO2 Source: CSP plant

CCU Tecnology Category: Capture (Point sources)

End TRL: 5

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- Technology infrastucture (Capture Point sources)

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