The 3rd annual STERG symposium was held with the 5th annual Renewable Energy Postgraduate Symposium by CRSES in 2015. The event sponsored by GeoSun, CRSES and the TIA Helio100 project.
All presentations of the STERG symposium:
- Prof. F Dinter – Opening session, Introduction of STERG
- Dr K Allen – Rock bed thermal storage
- HBeukes – The feasibility of solar thermal process heat for the sugarcane industry in South Africa
- S Bode – Heliostat field and pod placement
- O de Meyer – Thermal resistance model for CSP central receivers
- P Gauché – TIA Helio100 technology development project
- L Heller – Development of a dual-pressure air receiver for the SUNDISC cycle
- Dr S Hess – Solar process heat for South Africa
- Dr S Hess – Stationary booster reflections for solar thermal process heat generation
- C Homann – Simulating the effect of solarisation on the performance of a gas turbine
- W Landman – Using singular value decomposition to obtain multi-dimensional Gaussian flux distributions
- J Larmuth – A tops down approach to heliostat cost
- J Lock – Estimating a drone’s pose using computer vision techniques
- G Oosthuizen – Ironless double rotor radial flux air-cored PM machine
- J Rudman – Sand, sun and solar power
- B Ssebabi – System layout and performance prediction for a solar hybrid micro gas turbine
- C van der Merwe – Annular Air Solar Receiver
- Guest speaker, Chris Ehlers – Bokpoort Trough and CSP Tower
- Guest speaker, Riaan Meyer – CSP vs PV Developing
- Guest speaker, Vikesh Rajpaul – SolarPACES overview and update on Eskom CSP