STRENGTHENING THE VOLCANIC EARLY WARNING SYSTEM IN THE PHILIPPINES THROUGH INNOVATIVE GEOCHEMICAL METHODOLOGIES Data Financed budget: 149,920.00 € Financing: Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, AECID (59,920.00 €) & ITER (90,000.00 €) Reference: 2014/ACDE/004551 Acronym: geochemTAAL Duration: 18 months Principal Investigators: Dr. Pedro A. Hernández, PhD / Dr. Gladys Melián, PhD Overview of the project The main objective of this scientific collaboration project between the Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables (ITER) and the National Institute of Geological Sciences of the University of the Philippines in Diliman is to contribute to improve and optimise the early warning system of the…
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MUNICIPAL MODERNIZATION The Cabildo Insular de Tenerife (Tenerife Island Council), through the Municipal Modernization and Technical Assistance Unit (UMAM), has signed several agreements with ITER in order to achieve greater efficiency in the use of public resources allocated to articulate municipal modernization and technical assistance. From 2006 to 2014, ITER collaborated with the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Continuous Modernization Plan (PMC) in actions for the modernization of the Public Administration of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. From 2014 onwards, the Agreement was renewed for the updating of the town councils’ web portals, and new municipalities joined the project. In…
This project led by ITER and involving the UPM through the Higher Technical School of Aeronautics and Space Engineering, and the company Aernnova Engineering Solutions, it aims to build a 16-metre-wide solar aircraft capable of flying autonomously. To this end, ITER is responsible for the energy and autonomous navigation system, UPM for aerodynamic design and Aernnova for structural design. The aircraft is powered exclusively by solar energy captured through photovoltaic cells that cover its wings, and has a storage system that allows it to fly at night and in low radiation conditions. It is intended to be a fully autonomous…
Perovskite – R&D&i project of perovskite-based photovoltaic solar cells The Perovskita project of the Department of Photovoltaics is a line of Research, Development and Innovation that aims to obtain high-efficiency and low-cost photovoltaic cells based on the use of organic/inorganic hybrid materials, as the active layer (or light catcher). This technology, which has evolved rapidly over the last decade, now holding laboratory efficiency records of more than 20 per cent, is particularly attractive because of its relatively simple production processes. These processes are based on the arrangement of their constituent elements in the form of thin layers deposited on transparent…
The AiSoVol project (Photovoltaic generation solution for use as an alternative construction material in building) proposes the experimental development, manufacturing, and testing in a controlled environment of a modular, integrable, and multipurpose photovoltaic panel, capable of facilitating its use as an architectural element. Thus, the manufacturing of a ‘plug&play’ photovoltaic module will be implemented based on the design, manufacturing, and testing of photovoltaic modules by encapsulating their constituent electrical elements (cells and interconnections) with low-temperature sandwich-type lamination techniques, using different types of transparent thermoplastics instead of tempered glass, cohesion materials, and structural fiber frameworks, inspired by sail manufacturing technology for…
AEROVIAV is a railway research project whose objective is to design two new solutions capable of mitigating the aerodynamic phenomena present in the ballast tracks of the High-Speed Lines which reduce the maximum performances of the same as a consequence of the the rolling stock passes through them at speeds of more than 250 km/h, the most important for us is the so-called ballast lift or flight. The project leader is Foresa, which together with ACCIONA and Metalúrgica Cuevas form the core of AEROVIAV, and acting as subcontractor to ITER among other agencies. The objective of the task developed by…
BrasilSat: Wind tunnel + Wind tunnel testing ITER, in collaboration with the company Ingeniería y Proyectos Viento and the Higher Technical School of Aeronautical and Space Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, have been awarded a contract with the company BrasilSat Harald for the development of a project to install a Wind Tunnel in the city of Curitiba in Brazil, which is part of a macro-project to facilitate internet access throughout the country. BrasilSat carried out tests in November 2014 in the ITER wind tunnel of the satellite dishes it manufactures, after which it took the final decision to…
Open-loop low-enthalpy geothermal air conditioning system for improving energy efficiency in the cooling of the D-ALiX Datacenter Low enthalpy geothermal energy is based on the ability of the subsoil to accumulate heat and maintain a fairly constant temperature, between 10 and 20 metres deep, throughout the year. The technology developed for the use of low enthalpy geothermal energy is the renewable geothermal heat pump. This technology is capable of extracting heat from the earth’s subsoil, to be able to heat a fluid of high compressibility and low vaporization point, in order to transmit that heat to an installation in winter,…
Energy storage system, load management and consumption reduction program. ITER has been working for several years on high-power battery storage systems. The development of the TEIDE100 photovoltaic inverter, with a power of 100kWn, and its subsequent adaptation for bidirectional AC/DC operation, have enabled the in-house development of a battery storage system. Furthermore, ITER currently has this system, which includes a battery bank with a storage capacity of 536 kWh. This bank, which has been used in operational tests, is the basis of the pilot installation for the proposed system and will form part of the final system. In this regard,…
Dissemination and awareness of the importance of renewable energies in island territories. The objective of this project is to disseminate the importance that renewable energies have in island territories due to the singularities associated with isolated electrical systems that make them completely different from those territories electrically interconnected. Energy management is of vital importance in any electrical system, but especially in isolated systems, where the connection with other electrical systems cannot be exploited to improve the stability of the whole. The aim is to bring technologies associated with renewable energy generation closer to the unskilled population; the factors that determine…