Solar Energy Journal Best Paper Award to Martin Joly and Co-authors
© 2013 EPFL
Martin Joly, Andreas Schüler and co-authors of the EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory have received the Solar Energy Journal Best Paper Award 2012-2013 in Collector Technology for their paper entitled "Novel black selective coating for tubular solar absorbers based on a sol-gel method".
The paper reports the development of an innovative coating with excellent values for thermal stability, solar absorptance and thermal emissivity for solar absorbers. The multilayered selective solar absorber coating is produced with a low-cost chrome-free sol-gel method. This development is particularly interesting for the solar industry because the novel fabrication process allows an environmentally friendly production at lower cost, less initial investments, and lower energy consumption. The novel nanocomposite coatings are especially durable at elevated temperatures and therefore well suited for applications such as solar electricity generation by Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and industrial process heat.
The coating was developed in the framework of Martin Joly's PhD thesis under the supervision of Dr Andreas Schüler and Prof. Jean-Louis Scartezzini.
The award presented at the occasion of the Solar World Congress in Cancun, Mexico singled out significant pioneering contributions to the promotion of solar energy as an alternate source of energy through research, development or economic enterprise or extraordinarily valuable and enduring contributions to the field of solar energy in other ways.
Reference:
"Novel black selective coating for tubular solar absorbers based on a sol-gel method". by Martin Joly, Yannik Antonetti, Martin Python, Marina Gonzalez, Thomas Gascou, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schüler, Volume 94, August 2013, Pages 233-239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2013.05.009.