CSP Seminar Series: Overview and Opportunities for the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant October 4, 2024 9:21 am Published by Admin The next installment of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility’s Concentrating Solar Power Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, from 10-11 a.m. MDT. Join Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant (G3P3) Principal Investigator Jeremy Sment for “Overview and Opportunities for the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant,” an informative discussion regarding completion of the G3P3 tower. Listen as the G3P3 Lead describes this major milestone, including the system design, status and progress, and path to completion, as well as the ongoing projects that are leveraging the G3P3 platforms to test particle-based solar components at larger scales than previously achievable. In addition, learn about the Solar Energy Technologies Office’s goals to reduce the levelized cost of electricity for concentrating solar power by half by the year 2030. Particle-based power also may hold a pathway to decarbonizing other sectors of the economy. The seminar will cover the niche electricity market potential of particle-based tower systems, novel opportunities to use particle-based heat for industrial processes, transportation, and thermal energy storage of electricity from a multi-source renewable energy grid. Register at “Overview and Opportunities for the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant to receive your NEW Teams invite. Biographical Sketch: Jeremy Sment is a researcher and principal engineer at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has worked since 2010. In his role at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility, Jeremy leads a team of particle-based CSP experts on the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant. Jeremy focuses on thermal energy storage and market adoption of concentrating solar thermal applications for industrial heat and solar wastewater treatments concerning the thermal decomposition of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or “forever chemicals.” Jeremy also specializes in system integration, commercialization, and technoeconomic assessment, and leads the Field Deployment task in HelioCon in collaboration with NREL. In his role with HelioCon, he has had the opportunity to conduct a series of interviews with industry experts around the world to develop a high-level understanding of solar field deployments in the context of U.S. energy market trends. He is currently performing studies on site selection and the impacts of heliostats and solar panels on desert tortoise habitats, and heliostat foundation requirements. Throughout his career, Jeremy has performed CFD modeling and measurements of wind loading over heliostat fields and developed functions for photovoltaic power models and heliostat flux mapping and calibration tools. More recently, Jeremy has developed structural cost modeling tools for receiver towers with tower-integrated storage, particle hoists conveyance machinery, and ground-based hot-particle silo construction. Jeremy holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of New Mexico. Tags: Concentrating Solar Power, CSP Seminar Series, G3P3, Jeremy Sment, News, NSTTF, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy « Previous Next »