May 20 2013
The consortium aims to obtain a new solar thermal collector, in the form of coating or covering building systems that face the main limitations of the current market, to reduce the risks of overheating in periods of high production and low consumption and to harmonise the integration of installations in buildings and cities.
Therefore, in its development both productive and construction process are considered. The final product will be multi-laminated and with a polymeric base; it will be a pre-manufactured product consisting of three differentiated layers that will perform the functions required: solar collection, distribution/storage and thermal insulation.
In parallel, it contributes to ‘industrialise the construction industry’ and, consequently, to allow the better quality of the finishing, to ease the execution of the work thus reducing the execution times, to reduce the environmental impact, to allow their installation by non-specialised work force or to reduce work-related accidents.
New materials with advanced specific properties will be developed using intelligent and multi-functional materials, and new models that simulate the thermal-hydraulic behaviour of fluids and optimise the production of ACS will be obtained, especially in periods of low solar radiation. Therefore, we will be able to optimise the implied economic sectors: plastic, construction, installations and others.
Mr Francisco Alonso, the project coordinator, states that ‘the results of this project will contribute to harmonise the integration of solar systems in buildings and cities, respecting the urban landscape, and the substitution of conventional energetic sources by renewable ones, thus reducing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere’.
The research project iREVSOL, within the framework of the National Programme of Public-Private Cooperation; sub-programme INNPACTO, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness is developed by the companies Servicios Integrales Alonso S.L. and Pérez Cerdá S.A., jointly with AIDICO y AIJU, technological centres.
About the Consortium
SIMA Servicios Integrales Alonso S.L. is a Valencian company created in 1993 and specialised in providing all kind of energetic services. The company is devoted to the installation, commercialisation and maintaining of gas systems, plumbing, heating, solar energy, conditioned air, water treatment, geothermia, gas networks in towns, building and maintenance of liquefied natural gas plants, and the maintenance of energy efficiency systems in public buildings.
Since its inception, the company carries out operative works for Gas Natural Group, including such important services as the emergency services, household operations and Servigas maintenance services.
The main activity of PEREZ CERDA Plastics is plastic injection; but they also devote their efforts to extrusion, blow moulding, high vacuum, the assembly of parts, blister sealing, shrink packaging, ultrasound welding, etc. The company, founded in 1978 with 2 machines and 5 operators, has adapted to the new challenges and markets and nowadays, managed by the second generation, has become a point of reference within the sector, with more than 30 000 m2, 60 injection machines up to 1700 ton and 100 employees. PEREZ CERDA is a technological partner of its main customers and has a strategy mainly addressed to the continuous improvement in processes, R&D and energetic efficiency.
AIDICO, the Technological Institute of Construction is a non-profit private association formed by companies belonging to this sector. It was created in 1990 by the Valencian Government through the IMPIVA and the support of the entrepreneurs of the building industry. It belongs to Technological Centres Network of the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (previously IMPIVA). AIDICO’s main aim is to optimise the innovation capacity, quality, safety and sustainability of the industry companies in order to boost their competitiveness within national and international markets.
The Technological Institute of Children’s Products and Leisure (AIJU) was founded in 1985 with the initiative of the Valencian Institute of SMEs (IMPIVA, acronym in Spanish) and the Spanish Industry and Energy Ministry (MINER) with the aim to support the development of the toy industry. Nowadays, AIJU has extended its activity and has become a point of reference within the children’s products and leisure industries (childcare articles, playground, promotions, sports, etc.) and offers high-value services to companies belonging to different fields. Additionally, AIJU develops R&D project specialised in childhood and leisure, innovative materials, technical productive processes, technological applications and the development of children’s products, quality and health through therapeutic leisure, energy and sustainability, etc.