The second Doctoral Colloquium and the first Summer School of EU-SOLARIS was held from June 2nd to 6th in Almería, Spain, and hosted by CIEMAT–Plataforma Solar de Almería.
At this colloquium, Georgios Arvanitakis from the DLR Institute of Future Fuels, introduced the concept of HySelect alongside research on both Sulfur Dioxide Depolarized Electrolysis (SDE) and Sulphuric Acid Splitting (SAS). This presentation was titled “Experimental Investigation of Sulphur Dioxide Depolarized Electrolysis with Commercial Components” and highlighted recent experimental findings.
The second presentation titled “Catalyst development for high temperature SO3 splitting in the solar-aided sulphur thermochemical cycle” was held by Georgia Skyfta from CERTH. This presentation focused on the synthesis and characterisation of oxide-based catalytic materials used for the SO3 splitting (Sulphur Trioxide Splitting, STS) of the SAS reaction, which is part of the overall Hybrid Sulphur (HyS) thermochemical cycle.
Both presentations attracted significant interest from fellow researchers in the field of concentrated solar thermal applications.